Kristin Perry v. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Memorandum Regarding Motion to Disqualify

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• recognizing that the views of a judge’s spouse “public or private, as to any issues that may come before [a] court, constitutional or otherwise, are of no consequence”
• wife “is an independent person who need not obtain my approval or agreement to advocate for whatever social causes she chooses. The views are hers, not mine”.
• recusal sought based on “wife’s beliefs, as expressed in her public statements and actions, both individually and in her capacity as Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California”
• ‘It is... important... that judges not recuse themselves unless required 23 || to do so, or it would be too easy for those who seek judges favorable to their case to disqualify those that they perceive to be unsympathetic merely by publicly questioning their impartiality.”
• “It is... important... that judges not recuse themselves unless required to do so, 23 || or it would be too easy for those who seek judges favorable to their case to disqualify those that they perceive to be unsympathetic merely by publicly questioning their impartiality.”
• “It is ... important ... that judges not recuse themselves unless required to do so, or it would be too easy for those who seek judges favorable to their case to disqualify those that they perceive to be unsympathetic merely by publicly questioning their impartiality.”

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