Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
On Election Day, it’s 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. Bush was a titan of the conservative legal movement, and he went on to serve as Bush’s solicitor general? Yet a few years later, he stunned his fellow conservatives by leading the legal fight to strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage… alongside the very lawyer he had beaten in Bush v. Gore.
Hint: His unlikely Proposition 8 partner was his old adversary in Bush v. Gore, David Boies.
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