Former U.S. solicitor general Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, who argued opposite each other in Bush v. Gore, are now teaming up to “represent two same-sex couples filing suit after being denied marriage licenses because of Proposition 8. Their suit, to be filed in U.S. District Court in California, calls for an injunction against the proposition, allowing immediate reinstatement of marriage rights for same-sex couples.”But why do it together? Well Ted Olsen is trying to pitch a legal Odd Couple type reality show to the networks, tentatively and creatively titled Legal Odd Couple. Each season would see them take on a case from one side of the political spectrum. Boies? He's trying to get in the same room with Olsen so he can knock him over the head, tie him up in the basement of the Boies estate and then show Ted a constant loop of Bush-centric documentaries on the war/torture/economy/election in an attempt to show him what his legal arguments wrought in 2000. Also there may or may not be a charity wrestling match where Boies and Olsen team up against Ken Starr and Patrick Fitzgerald (The Special Prosecutors of Doom) in a best of 3 falls, no holds barred, extreme rules, tables, ladders and chairs match.
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“For a long time I’ve personally felt that we are doing a grave injustice for people throughout this country by denying equality to gay and lesbian individuals,” Olson told The Advocate in an interview. A copy of the 10-page complaint is here.
Discrimination makes strange bedfellows. Best of luck gentlemen. Hopefully you win and provide at least one comical moment where the snooty judge looks at your table and goes "the Bush lawyer...the Gore lawyer...but...but....heavens to betsy" and then either comically faints or is so flabbergasted that his monocle falls out.
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