Former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best known conservative lawyers and successfully argued on behalf of same-sex marriage, died Wednesday.

Theodore Olson, a conservative lawyer who helped George W. Bush secure the White House and later worked to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage, died November 13. He was 84. The Washington ...

Theodore Olson, the iconoclastic appellate lawyer behind George W. Bush’s victory before the Supreme Court in 2000, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Olson was widely condemned on the left for his role in ...

Updated November 13, 2024 at 19:32 PM ET Theodore Olson, a towering figure in the legal profession who argued 65 cases at the Supreme Court as solicitor general and as a private lawyer, died just ...

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