“Top Calif. judge faces backlash over gay marriage”

The AP has this report on the career of Cal. Chief Justice Ronald George. It reports:

Now, the law-and-order supporter of capital punishment is enduring from gay marriage foes the very complaints of “judicial activism” he has worked so hard to avoid during his 17 years on the high court and 34 years as a California judge.

He will likely have to mount an aggressive and expensive campaign to retain his seat in the 2010 election.