Issues That Matter: Boies and Olson on Supreme Court

David Boies and Ted Olson, who were on opposing sides of Bush v. Gore, teamed up in 2009 to fight California's ban on same-sex marriage. That case paved the way for the Supreme Court to declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right. In this edition of Issues That Matter, Boies and Olson join "CBS This Morning" to discuss the challenges the next president faces in handling the Supreme Court vacancy and the potential for a disputed election this November.

[Gambit]

I really wish this segment was longer. These guys are brilliant

[HoofddorpTim]

I find both of these gentlemen brilliant! They can and do have differing opinions on various and weighty issues. However they both seek to find areas of common agreement and work towards resolving issues surrounding the areas of common interest as well as those areas where they disagree. To me... they represent the American ideal of the practice of law in it's purest form.

[michaelwilson]

Ted Olson makes me sick to look at him.

Notes on AAL Flight 77, 9/11

On this flight, one passenger and one flight attendant called out.
The passenger, commentator Barbara Olson called to her husband Ted Olson who was at work at the time, he was the US. Solicitor General. Barbara was a last-minute passenger to this flight, she was originally scheduled to fly out on the 10th. Ted Olson made several claims about Barbara’s phone calls. First, he said she called from an Air phone collect, but air phones had to be activated by swiping a credit card and you could not call collect from an Air Phone. Then he said she called collect from her cell phone, but again, this is not possible as collect calls could not be made from a cell phone at that time. Then he said he didn’t know how she called, but she said all the passengers nearly fifty-five, had been moved to the back of the plane. She wanted to know what she should tell the pilots but was unclear if they were in the cockpit or sitting next to her in the back of coach. Here is one serious problem for Ted and Babs, American Airlines had deactivated all their Air Phones on their 757 aircraft by January 31, 2001, some eight months before Ted claimed Barbara called using one. So, we know Barbara was calling from a cell phone, but according to NTSB and the FAA, at the time of the reported phone calls, that plane was traveling at approximately twenty-five thousand feet, making a cell phone call impossible.
What made Barbara Olson a television commentator think that she could tell professional military trained pilots what to do? Why would she think her husband, an attorney would have something to tell the pilots? Barbara Olson is the only person to report the hijackers had box cutters.
Flight seventy-seven had several trained pilots including a retired American Captain riding on a pass. No other passengers attempted to phone out and only one of the flight attendants called.
Flight attendant Rene May phoned to her mom and dad in Las Vegas. Instead of phoning crew scheduling or an appropriate company security line to initiate the FAA hijack protocols, she phoned her parents who did not have the phone numbers for security, crew scheduling or any corporate number to initiate a hijack response. This is total nonsense, the worst place she could call was her parents who had to phone in to a reservations line to report their daughters hijacking when Rene should have called into a company line. Was Rene trying to delay the military response? Was she even in a plane? The flight from Dulles airport in Washington DC to Westover Air Force base would have had that plane on the ground by the time their phone calls were made around 9:10 that morning.
Barbara made either two, three or four phone calls, her husband changed his story so many times, it’s hard to give an accurate report.
Neither woman reported any descent although according to the NTSB, during the ten minutes or so span of their phone calls, especially Barbara’s several calls, the plane descended from thirty-five thousand feet to twenty-five thousand feet in a few minutes and then from twenty-five thousand down to five thousand feet in approximately six minutes. Why did neither of them mention a descent, let alone a fairly rapid one? Why did the flight attendant not call into a company line such as crew scheduling, flight attendants all have that number memorized. They could have initiated a military response immediately.

[SaunKrystian]

1% nonsense. I was asleep when this was going on. How many billionaires and millionaires were in this clip...including the media people. This is one big political party.