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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I like a lot of those names, but what about that guy who's wife died on one of the 9/11 planes? Could you imagine the fix the Dems would be in? Where is he likely to stand on abortion?
Credit me later, but if he's in my corner on abortion, Gitmo, property rights and state's rights (generally speaking, NTTAWWT), this would be a feat of Rovian proportions.
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Ted Olson, number 9(ii). His shortcoming is he is old. Major Federalist.
-He was born 1940, in Chicago.
-He graduated from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., and University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.
-He was an assistant attorney general in President's Reagan administration.
-He was previous to his US Solicitor position and is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, during which time he argued many cases in front of the Supreme.
-He represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore.
-He was the U.S. solicitor general from 2001-2004.
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His wife, Barbara, died Sept. 11, 2001, in the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
-he has no judicial experience but
has advocated for traditional conservative causes. i.e. anti-abortion
