Posted on 11/13/2024 10:10:28 AM PST by CFW
Theodore Olson, the former conservative lawyer who argued the 2000 Florida vote-recount case on behalf of President George W. Bush, has died at the age of 84, his firm announced Wednesday.
There was no immediate cause of death given for the former solicitor general, who is also remembered for teaming up with David Boies – his opponent in Bush v. Gore – to help overturn California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages.
"Ted was a titan of the legal profession and one of the most extraordinary and eloquent advocates of our time," Barbara Becker, chair and managing partner of Gibson Dunn, said in a statement. "He was creative, principled, and fearless -- a trailblazing advocate who cared about all people. We mourn his loss profoundly and send our condolences to his wife Lady, a cherished member of our firm family, and to all of Ted’s loved ones."
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I would't really describe Ted Olson as "conservative" though.
There’s about as many Conservative Lawyers as there are white Running Backs.
I guess he died of old age
“Conservative” lawyers are produced by “Conservative” law schools of which there are very few.
I believe she was on the plane that hit the Pentagon.
He went so wrong after Barbara’s death. Tragic RIP
Yes she was on flight 77 that hit the pentagon, she called her husband multiple times to tell him what was going on on the plane and he told her what had happened at the world trade center
RIP.
Yeah but John Riggins was something else. And Antonin Scalia too.
Yes, she was. She called him and said the plane had been taken over. He knew what was going to happen. If I recall he did not tell her. That evening the channel she was suppose to be on had an empty seat at the table in her memory.
He was anti-Trump I believe. Said he would vote to convict Trump in his second impeachment.
Ted betrayed us in the end.
” Olson’s wife, Barbara, was a Freeper. Those here at the time recall when she was killed on the airplane that”
Yes, BKO. What great lady. I had her book, signed. All lost to the Almeda fire.
I never could understand the attraction she had for RINO Ted.
RIP
Correction...
Barbara Olson died crashing into the Pentagon.
She was actually on the phone with her husband - Ted Olson - describing the situation on the plane when the connection ended.
I never did hear if the connection ended before the crash, or, at the moment of the crash.
He seemed to go off the deep end after his wife died. He became a total leftie. But may he rest in peace.
In 2009, Ted Olson filed a lawsuit, challenging California’s recent ban on same sex marriage. The late Judge Robert Bork, who had called same sex marriage a “judicial sin” had been a close friend of Ted’s, but he could not bear to speak to Mr. Olson about that case. “I don’t want to get into an argument, but I’d like to know why?”.
I’ll give Ted a big pass. His wife was a wonderful woman. He was robbed of 23 years of being with her by ISLAMIC extremist killers. Likely he never got over it.
Barbara Olsen was the guest on C-SPAN shortly before 9/11/01. I watched and a nasty caller who phoned in called her a witch or something. Barbara was a great woman. Horrible what happened to her and thousands others that Tuesday in September.
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