{"id":5464,"date":"2010-01-15T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/best-one-liner-from-a-judge-this-year\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:06:00","slug":"best-one-liner-from-a-judge-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/best-one-liner-from-a-judge-this-year.php","title":{"rendered":"Best One-Liner from a Judge This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The judge presiding over the first serious challenge in federal court of a state gay-marriage ban has defined his career with an unconventional approach.<\/p><p>Two days into the trial over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban, Judge Vaughn Walker has upset some opponents of gay marriage by allowing gay couples to testify on the meaning of marriage.<\/p><p>The 65-year-old judge has tried to breach the longtime ban on TV cameras in federal court by ordering the trial to be posted on YouTube -- though the Supreme Court has temporarily stayed that decision.<\/p><p>On Monday, the first day of the trial, he repeatedly asked the lawyers: <strong>Why don't states \"get out of the marriage business? It would solve the problem.\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><p>OK, that's two lines, but right on the money in any case.&nbsp; Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126334233397826947.html\">rest<\/a>; Walker is an interesting guy.&nbsp; How did a libertarian get on the federal bench?<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9b0c9_6379328854053402400-2186256119827746918?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge presiding over the first serious challenge in federal court of a state gay-marriage ban has defined his career with an unconventional approach.Two days into the trial over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban, Judge Vaughn Walker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/best-one-liner-from-a-judge-this-year.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}