Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who served two Republican presidents as one of the country’s best-known conservative ...

The conservative lawyer also was at the center of the 2000 election case that eventually led to George W. Bush’s victory over ...

Bush in the 2000 Florida presidential election ... Washington who knew Ted as a good and decent man.” Bush made Olson his solicitor general, a post the lawyer held from 2001 to 2004. Olson had ...

The Florida congressman would be the first U.S. attorney general in four decades who never worked as a government attorney or ...