This should provide more incentive to reform the judicial nomination process in Iowa. Currently the process provides the governor a list of permitted nominees and the governor can only choose names on the list. But the list is chosen in a way that gives leftist democrats overwhelming control over its content, regardless of whom is governor. So even the most conservative Governor is stuck proposing liberal loons as judges. There had been some talk of reforming this several years ago under ‘Governor for life’ Branstad, but then the Democrats narrowly controlled the Senate and were able to block it. Now that Branstad has passed the baton to Gov. Reynolds and the GOP has managed to win both the House and Senate needs to be a priority. I don’t recall whether a state constitutional amendment is needed to get the job adequately done; in which case the GOP will need to hang on to the executive and both legislative power levers for a couple more election cycles to get the job finished. And not have their own SOS office drop the ball, causing an additional election cycle round as they did on adding a version of the 2nd to the state constitution.
Thanks!
The GOP need to get that done, the sooner the better.