Circus Trial Begins Over Proposition 8

Karen Lee Torre writes at the Connecticut Law Tribune: “They should have gone further and yanked him off that case. Already, Walker’s impartiality is suspect. Among many now publicly questioning it, Washington Post legal affairs editorialist Eva Rodriquez put it best when she observed that Walker’s pre-trial conduct has already sullied the proceedings. If Walker could not be ‘unflinchingly fair about something that simple,’ she wrote, ‘how can I trust him to be fair to both sides when deeply held beliefs and constitutional rights are at stake?”