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Sophomore Magdalena Robak ran the third fastest time, 1:00.53, in the 400-meter dash and finished eighth in the 200-meter. Junior Jamie Olson also earned a top finish, placing second in the 800-meter run with a time...
...would think it would take a miracle for the two opposing attorneys of Bush v. Gore (2000) to find common legal ground on anything. But Perry v. Schwarzenegger, an ongoing trial in California that finished hearing witness testimony late last month, has united Ted Olson, an “icon” of the conservative legal movement, and David Boies, his former “liberal adversary,” on perhaps the only ideology they share. Both lawyers believe that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, and both are willing to take their...
...acted together,” Boies commented in The Wall Street Journal, to emphasize that this is “not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.” Indeed, as Olson echoed in Newsweek, “legalizing same-sex marriage” would “represent the culmination of our nation’s commitment to equal rights...
That case, titled Loving v. Virginia (1967), is one of the primary decisions cited by Olson and Boies as precedent. Loving, a white male citizen of Virginia, married a black fellow Virginian out-of-state and was charged, along with his wife, with violation of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The couple challenged the constitutionality of this law under the Fourteenth Amendment, and on appeal, the Supreme Court of Virginia upheld it because the state has a personal stake in preserving the “racial integrity” of its citizens. In addition, since...
...orderly pursuit of happiness,” to deny this “fundamental freedom” to two people who love each other on such an arbitrary criteria as race is “directly subversive of the principle of equality.” All that Olson and Boies need to do to prove their case, therefore, is extend the Loving ruling from racial discrimination to sexual discrimination, a policy that is also forbidden under the equal protection clause...