Posted on 11/13/2024 10:02:06 AM PST by Borges
Theodore B. Olson, a conservative constitutional lawyer who argued the 2000 Florida vote-recount case that helped George W. Bush secure the presidency and, to much surprise, later joined forces with a liberal opponent from the election lawsuit in a successful effort to overturn California’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage, died Nov. 13 at a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. He was 84.
The death was announced by the law firm Gibson Dunn, where Mr. Olson was a partner. No cause was noted.
A legal luminary of the right, Mr. Olson spent most of his six-decade career as an appellate lawyer in private practice. He had two high-level government appointments — serving as assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1984 and solicitor general of the United States under Bush from 2001 to 2004. He was widely regarded as one of the top practitioners of his generation.
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Bummer. 84 is a good long run.
Was this Barbara Olson’s husband??? She was killed in a plane on 9/11!
His wife died on one of the planes that hit the twin towers on 9/11.
Now they are together and with God.
Yes
Yes...and she was a Freeper, too.
Barbara Olsen was the airplane that hit the Pentagon.
Supporting evil isn’t on God’s side. Did he repent before he died? We’ll never know. I hope he did.
he was not the same after Barbara’s death
Yes.
I think she changed her flight plans so she could be there to celebrate her husband’s birthday. The Democrats had been delaying his confirmation for no good reason, just out of spite, but let his confirmation go through after his wife was killed on 9/11.
Didn’t he remarry? That ruined Barry Goldwater, too.
RIP.....you will be with Barbara again.
Ping!
He’s from around the South Bay.
Who was evil. Please don’t say Reagan.
Not who, what. “Marriage equality “ is a mockery of marriage.
Ted's mother Yvonne was our neighbor and lived a few doors down from us. Unfortunately, I never got to meet Ted or Barbara. Yvonne was a kind and good neighbor. She grieved for the death of her daughter-in-law.
The Olsons moved here in 1955 and Ted was in the first graduating class of our high school in 1958 (we moved here in 1983).
In 2002, Yvonne was invited to attend 9/11 memorial ceremonies in Washington, D.C., but said traveling to Washington would be "too emotional for me. I don't want to keep crying." Yvonne particularly appreciated the rekindling of patriotism that 9/11 inspired. "The idea of patriotism was neglected for many, many years," Yvonne said.
Barbara Olson was a former congressional investigator, author and CNN commentator. She was on American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon. She managed to call Ted twice before the crash, describing her captors and noting that passengers were being herded to the back of the plane. Ted told Barbara about two planes that had already hit the World Trade Center in New York.
I didn’t realize he did that.
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