Federal judge who ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional plans to step down

Dan82 · Sep 29, 2010

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Vaughn R. Walker, the federal judge who ruled that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional, will leave the bench at the end of the year for the private sector, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco announced Wednesday.

A media liaison for the court said Walker's decision was unrelated to his August ruling that found a ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution.

Walker presided over an unprecedented federal trial earlier this year that examined a wide array of questions about gays and lesbians, including whether sexual orientation can be changed and whether same-sex unions differ much from opposite-sex unions.

Walker, 66, a Republican appointee considered a conservative with a libertarian bent, has served as a federal district judge for nearly 21 years and as chief judge of the San Francisco-based court since 2004.

A statement by the court said only that Walker would "return to the private sector." The media liaison said another statement about his future plans may be released in the next month or so.

Walker's ruling overturning Proposition 8, which is now being appealed, prompted outrage from conservatives and a scathing condemnation from the lawyers for the proponents of the 2008 ballot measure.

In a brief filed earlier this month in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for ProtectMarriage argued that Walker ignored the law and suggested that he was biased.

Supporters of same-sex marriage have embraced the ruling, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown have refused to appeal it...

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Holmes · Sep 30, 2010

I wish him well, a great and very judgement he delivered on that case.

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