Rachel Maddow interviews Proposition 8 litigators

Dan82 · Oct 8, 2012

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Proposition 8 litigators David Boies (LL.M. ’67) and Theodore Olson joined MSNBC host Rachel Maddow at NYU School of Law on Friday for an in-depth interview about the future of marriage equality, an issue that may be taken up by the Supreme Court this year. The conversation ranged widely over the course of an hour, touching on points such as how to win over Justice Scalia on the issue, the public’s support for gay marriage, and the worst-case scenario for this legal challenge.

The high-profile team of Boies, chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner and chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the late 1970s, and Olson, partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and U.S. solicitor general during the presidency of George W. Bush, is especially remarkable because the two attorneys had argued on opposite sides of Bush v. Gore in 2000. Between them, the men have argued many of the landmark cases of our time, including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and United States v. Microsoft...

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Emberstone · Oct 8, 2012

honestly, I think it is safe to say that Thomas and Scalia are lost causes (both on the issue of gay marriage, and on the issue of our laws being based on logic, reason, ethics, and morality, since all four things listed have not yet appeared in the rulings of those two arrogant gasbags).

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