Tag Archives: Ted Olson

VIRGINIA: Olson & Boies Tell Court To Immediately Rule In Favor Of Marriage

Via press release from AFER: The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of Bostic v. Rainey, the federal constitutional challenge to Virginia’s discriminatory Marriage Amendment, issued the following statement regarding U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen’s order seeking Status Reports from all parties in the case regarding whether oral argument on the issues presented is …

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VIRGINIA: State Attorney General To Join Olson & Boies In Marriage Ban Lawsuit

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who won election in November by a 0.04% margin, will join Prop 8 victors Ted Olson and David Boies in their bid to strike down his state’s ban on gay marriage. The action will mark a stunning reversal in the state’s legal position on same-sex marriage and is a result of November elections in which …

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VIRGINIA: AFER’s Olson & Boies To Join Lawsuit For Marriage Equality

AFER’s Ted Olson and David Boies, the team that brought marriage equality back to California, will today join the July lawsuit that seeks to overturn Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. The Washington Post reports: The addition of Olson and Boies to a case in Norfolk willprobably bring more attention to the challenges to Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriages. The state’s …

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Olson & Boies Speak Outside Court

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Ted Olson: I Don’t Know What Will Happen

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Protect Marriage: We Caught Judge Vaughn Walker Working With Ted Olson

Three months ago now-retired Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker emailed Ted Olson to ask whether he should attend next week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Armed (somehow) with a copy of that email, Protect Marriage is claiming that Walker’s request demonstrates “the cozy relationship between Walker and our opponents, casting even more doubt on the legitimacy of Walker’s one-sided …

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Olson & Boies Announce Book Deal

Next year, when all the dust has hopefully settled, Prop 8 attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies will publish a jointly-written book about their battle for marriage equality. “Our collective journey tells of a crucial and historical civil rights movement that brings us closer to the ideals on which our country was founded,” Boies, 71, said in a statement issued …

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HomoQuotable – Greg Quinlan

“We are in a very precarious situation right now, so I don’t know that the fears are justified from homosexual activists now who are afraid that the court won’t use this to change the course of this nation and our ethics.  We’re seeing over and over again that there are places where the Constitution doesn’t matter, the will of the …

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Prop 8 Attorney Ted Olson To Train Paul Ryan For Vice Presidential Debate

A lot of folks are scratching their heads this weekend after word came that Ted Olson will be prepping Paul Ryan for his vice presidential debate with Joe Biden. Olson, as you probably know, is the attorney who won the overturn of Proposition 8 with his colleague David Boies. Olson, the former Solicitor General and the man who argued Bush …

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Ted Olson On Prop 8 Ruling

Watch this.

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VIDEO: Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Hears Final Arguments In Proposition 8

Below is the full hearing from Thursday. The first clip covers the argument against releasing the trial tapes. The second clip covers the argument that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself for being gay. Both clips are highly instructive as to the vitriolic lengths our enemies are willing to go in their campaign of oppression.

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NCLR’s Kate Kendell On Prop 8 Hearing

“It would be an unthinkable blow to California’s democratic system of government if the handful of individuals who sponsored Prop 8 could make decisions for the entire state. Today’s arguments raised critical questions affecting the future of all groups who may be targeted by unconstitutional ballot initiatives, and the California Supreme Court’s decision will determine whether our state can be …

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44 Years Later: Loving Vs. Virginia

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Ted Olson & NY AG Eric Schneiderman Editorialize Against Civil Unions

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today published an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News explaining why civil unions are an unacceptable compromise in the marriage equality battle. Olson, as you doubtlessly know, was the co-lead attorney in the battle to overturn Prop 8. An excerpt from today’s essay: A civil …

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Family Research Council Files FOIA Request Over DOMA/Prop 8 Connection

The Family Research Council is convinced that the Obama administration “conspired” with Ted Olson and AFER over the same-day timing of last week’s announcements on DOMA and Proposition 8. Yesterday they filed a Freedom of Information Act request to prove it. Here’s Tony Perkins’ letter to the feds. “Less than three hours after Attorney General Holder’s announcement, litigants seeking to …

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Tony Perkins: Obama Conspired With Ted Olson On Timing Of DOMA Decision

“The administration seems to be coordinating these efforts with the assault on marriage in the states. Yesterday, within two hours of the President’s statement, a document was quietly filed in the Proposition 8 lawsuit. And not just any document, but a 23-page motion that noted the Justice Department’s withdrawal from the DOMA case as a reason to lift the stay …

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Red Carpet Interviews At AFER Event

Clip description via Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV: Co-founded by actor/director Rob Reiner, AFER is leading the fight for marriage equality through it’s groundbreaking federal court case to overturn California’s Proposition 8. On the red carpet, AFER’s team and celebrities alike share their feelings on gay marriage with facts, personal experience and song. In attendance, Jason Mraz, Jane Lynch, Marisa …

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AFER Explains Prop 8 Ruling

From this afternoon’s conference call with LGBT media.

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Tweet Of The Day – AFER

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Quote Of The Day – Ted Olson

“It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don’t know what is going through the [Obama] administration’s thought process on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ It would be appropriate for them to say ‘the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we …

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