Conservatives couldn’t understand why Ted Olson (the attorney who won the 2000 election for George W. Bush and later served as his Solicitor General) represented the gay couples who sued to overturn California’s Prop 8 and won the case in a ruling by a federal judge last week. Yet Olson, a keen legal mind, was the one who understood the constitutional questions in play much better than his opponents, who are now running around screaming about judicial activism (definition: you lost the case, so the judge must be an activist), an argument as lame as the defense his opponents put up during the trial.
Here’s Olson on “Fox News Sunday” explaining to Chris Wallace, who has nothing but those same tired complaints, why the 14th amendment protects the equality of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation…