Olson and Boies Make the Case for Marriage Equality

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Ted Olson and David Boies — two courtroom titans who’d battled each other all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore — came together to challenge California’s Proposition 8, which ordered the state constitution to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. They won their case at the district court level and today the Supreme Court upheld that lower court decision, which overturned the same-sex marriage ban.

In this 2010 Moyers Moment from Bill Moyers Journal, the lawyers explain the constitutional basis for their argument.

Watch the full conversation with Ted Olson and David Boies.

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