Ted Olson, Former Solicitor General and Gibson Dunn Partner, Dies

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Source: Bloomberg

Former US Solicitor General and longtime Gibson Dunn partner Ted Olson, who went on to defend gay marriage rights, died Wednesday.

Olson served as the government’s Supreme Court lawyer during the George W. Bush administration and argued 65 cases before the court during his career. He fought for Bush in the case that cinched the 2000 presidential election for Bush over Al Gore and successfully fought to keep a California ballot measure banning same-sex marriage overturned.

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[Archae]

1. Wasn't his wife killed on 9-11?

[PlanetBev]

2. Yes

She was on the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.

[Jarqui]

4. Yes, Barbara Olson, lawyer and media commentator

They have audio of her call from the jet before it hit the Pentagon

She delayed her trip a day so she could wake up with him on his birthday Sep 11, 2001

Sad loss

[mgardener]

5. Yes

Barbara Olson

[Hieronymus Phact]

8. Yes and i always suspected...

Ted Changed after that. He sort of left public life, stopped doing the talking head thing, didn't do high profile political work any more. He just seemed to fade away from the public.

I was always curious about that. Perhaps just grief over his wife, or perhaps he made some realizations about what and who he was working for.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. An old foe, but he worked for voting rights with David Boise about a decade ago

He had my sympathy when his wife died on American Flt 77. Tragic thing, even though I cursed her out a lot when she was on TV going against the Clintons.

[hlthe2b]

7. Ditto. Maybe it is because she's long dead, but I don't recall her being as bad as counterparts Kellyanne Conway

and the rest of the obnoxious ubiquitous female media ilk of the time.

[Bengus81]

12. Yeah...if remember right from her it was non-stop bashing.

[hlthe2b]

6. Wow. He did a lot of damage but in later years argued successfully several pro-liberal/democracy cases.

[Tarzanrock]

9. Satan brings another Republican Nazi home!

Enjoy your eternity where you belong, asshole!

[JI7]

10. He helped fight for gay rights

[question everything]

11. R.I.P

[valleyrogue]

13. He married a Democrat after Barbara died.

He went low-key after that.