Prop 8 lawyer David Boies: ‘SCOTUS won’t give a gay-bashing opinion’

Dan82 · May 3, 2010

http://gayonlinenews.com/2010/05/pr...es-‘scotus-won’t-give-a-gay-bashing-opinion’/

David Boies walked right into the Green Room where I’d just settled in to wait for him, shook my hand, and sat down. His escort, Equality Forum [1]’s Communications Director Chip Alfred, reminded me that I had five minutes, and strode briskly away.

Boies was about to be honored (along with his new BFF Ted Olson, who was not in attendance) as an International Role Model at Equality Forum’s Annual International Equality Dinner. The two of them are litigating the challenge to Proposition 8 (and really to the ban on same-sex marriages more generally), and the case is widely expected to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

As the week-long event’s “official blogger,” I was one of several to get a few minutes of face time with him, and I wasn’t going to waste it.

I knew it would be no use trying to knock him off his pegs; Boies has argued before the Supreme Court many times, most notably in the infamous Bush v. Gore case, where he argued for the losing side. He’d always struck me as implacable in a professorial way: relaxed, bright, and comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. Nothing about his personal demeanor or mildly ruffled appearance – a bit surprising, given the glitzy, 200-dollar-a-plate event – suggested that my impressions had been off-base.
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Prop 8 lawyer David Boies: ‘SCOTUS won’t give a gay-bashing opinion’

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