- “Bioblitz”: Environmental groups file thousands of actions demanding endangered species listings [NYT; related discussion with Jonathan Adler and Steven Hayward at NYT’s Room for Debate]
- War on painkillers could turn many more Florida docs, druggists into criminals [White Coat]
- Feds flex muscle, using debarment to oust company CEOs [Jim Doyle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- “Madigan’s List”: powerful Illinois pol sways selection of Cook County judges [Chicago Tribune]
- Nick Gillespie interviews education reformer Jay Greene [Reason]
- Social conservatives misplay recusal card against Judge Vaughn Walker in Prop 8 case [Richard Painter, LEF, more, AW, LAT] Other views: Whelan, Gillers, motion.
- Why TV shows like “WKRP in Cincinnati” appear in compromised DVD versions [Alex Tabarrok updates a story we had in ’06]
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Judge Walker didn’t belong to the class of people affected by Proposition 8. He, as far as I know, never attempted to marry, nor did he marry someone of the same or opposite sex. He had nothing to gain or lose by his decision.
In fact, the primary argument from the Yes on 8 people was that it weakens heterosexual marriage. So, by that argument, a heterosexual married person would have to recuse himself, because he wouldn’t want his marriage to be weakened.
Full Disclosure: I am among the 12,000 people legally married to a person of the same sex in California.
Not that I disagree with his findings, but for the sake of argument, can you imagine the reception he would have gotten within the community had he found the other way or even had he recused himself. He was in a no-win situation no matter what he did, so he certainly did the right thing by staying the course.
robert – You are being clever but not serious.