Court Likely To Reject Prop 8 Proponents' Claim That Gay Judges Can't Rule In Marriage Cases

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether to disqualify Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker for failing to publicly admit to a long-term same-sex relationship when he struck down California's Proposition 8. Proponents of the measure sought to convince the rather skeptical three-judge panel that Walker was “in the same kind of relationship as the plaintiffsâ€