Prop 8 lawyer Boies: ‘SCOTUS won’t give a bashing opinion’ By Culhane, Professor of Law, Widener University 9:39am EDT Boies walked right chub looking to get dirty into the Green Room where I’d just settled in to wait for him, shook my hand, and sat down. His escort, Equality Forum’s Communications Director Chip, reminded me that I had minutes, and strode briskly away. Boies was about to be honored (along with his new BFF Olson, who was not in attendance) as an International Role Model at Equality Forum’s Annual International Equality Dinner. The two of them are litigating the challenge to Proposition 8 (and really to the ban on same-sex marriages more generally), and the case is widely expected to go all the way to the Supreme Court. As the week event’s “official blogger,” I was one of several to get a few minutes of face time with him, and I wasn’t going to waste it. I knew it would be no use trying to knock him off his pegs; Boies has argued before the Supreme Court times, most notably in the infamous Bush v. Gore case, where he argued for the losing side. He’d always struck me as implacable in a professorial way: relaxed, bright, and comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. Nothing about his personal demeanor or mildly ruffled appearance – a bit surprising, given the glitzy, -dollar-a-plate event – suggested that my impressions had been off-base. But I didn’t have time for an amiable chat. FULL STORY: