{"id":166694,"date":"2026-11-03T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/03\/the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:25:04","slug":"the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/03\/the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawyer Who Picked A President, Then Switched Causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Election Day, it\u2019s worth recalling the case that settled a presidency in court rather than at the ballot box, <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em> (2000). Who was the lawyer who argued and won it for George W. Bush was a titan of the conservative legal movement, and he went on to serve as Bush\u2019s solicitor general? Yet a few years later, he stunned his fellow conservatives by leading the legal fight to strike down California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage\u2026 alongside the very lawyer he had beaten in Bush v. Gore.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: His unlikely Proposition 8 partner was his old adversary in <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em>, David Boies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lawyer Who Picked A President, Then Switched Causes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/george-w.-bush-300x212.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorge W. Bush (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Election Day, it\u2019s worth recalling the case that settled a presidency in court rather than at the ballot box, <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em> (2000). Who was the lawyer who argued and won it for George W. Bush was a titan of the conservative legal movement, and he went on to serve as Bush\u2019s solicitor general? Yet a few years later, he stunned his fellow conservatives by leading the legal fight to strike down California\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage\u2026 alongside the very lawyer he had beaten in Bush v. Gore.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: His unlikely Proposition 8 partner was his old adversary in <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em>, David Boies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/the-lawyer-who-picked-a-president-then-switched-causes\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! On Election Day, it\u2019s worth recalling the case that settled a presidency in court rather than at the ballot box, Bush v. Gore (2000). Who was the lawyer who argued and won it for George W. 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