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Amanda Frost is professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. She specializes in the federal court system and federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, statutory interpretation and transparency in government.

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Can a Judge Be Biased Because He Is Gay?

Posted November 22, 2011 | 08:41 PM (EST)

Judges are human.

That simple fact seems to have escaped Protect Marriage, the group that sponsored the ballot initiative barring same sex marriage in California. Federal judge Vaughn Walker (now retired) struck down the initiative as unconstitutional. After his decision against it, Protect Marriage argued that Judge Walker had...

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