Brown is just plain wrong when it comes to Walker being one-side throughout the trial. Even before the trial began, Walker - who was randomly selected to preside - denied the attempt by LGBT groups such as Lambda Legal to intervene in the case.

Walker did allow Charles Cooper and ProtectMarriage and their legal ally, the Alliance Defense Fund, to intervene because the named defendants were all state officials - including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown who refused to mount a serious defense of Prop 8. That was a big "win" for the ProtectMarriage side - without which there might not have been much of a trial.

As for Walker's supposed judicial "activism" - there's a difference between being engaged and being "activist or neutral calling balls and strikes. This is a bench trial. Walker had to be engaged for clarification.