re: #101 HappyWarrior
Right it’s more than that. It’s standing up for Muslims and representing same sex clients pro Bono challenging Prop 8. He’s done a lot in his retirement from presidential administrations that he hasn’t had to and I like him for that. But you got that right.
From what I remember during my FedSoc years, Olson was always more of a libertarian than a conservative. Barbara, who died on 9/11, was more generally conservative and I think she tended to pull him that way. So it didn’t surprise me at all that he took some of the clients that he did.