Pushkin.

You cannot imagine a more tense, pressure-packed moment with all of that at stake

and saying, Mr. Chief Justice, may it

please the court and starting your argument. You understand and respect the role that the lawyer

on the other side is playing. But you weren't convinced by their case? I was not convinced

by their case. I was not convinced by their case then. I'm not convinced by their case now.

Hey, fiasco listeners.

Today, in the fifth bonus episode of our series on the 2000 election,

you'll hear my conversation with two of the highest profile lawyers involved in the saga of Bush v. Gore,

David Boys and Ted Olson.

You'll hear what it was like to make the case from both sides, from having to quickly catch up on Florida election law to getting

nervous before Supreme Court oral arguments to even befriending your opposition. We'll start

with David Boyes. When Boys got the call to come down to Florida, he was fresh off of

arguing on behalf of the government against Microsoft in a high-profile antitrust case, and he

was working on a licensing lawsuit in which he was representing Calvin Klein. I asked Boys why he was

willing to drop everything and represent Al Gore in the recount. If I hadn't been a lawyer, I would have been a high school American history teacher like my father was.

And to have an opportunity to participate in what was even at that stage, we didn't know how important the case was going to be.

But even at that stage, we knew it was an important case.

We knew it was a case that was going to be. But even at that stage, we knew it was an important case. We knew it was a case

that was going to involve historic decisions and to have an opportunity to have a front row seat

and maybe even be a participant was something that would have been hard to turn down. In addition,

I'd been involved in a few electoral contests before,

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