Posted on 10/31/2010 6:42:38 AM PDT by stillafreemind
As for voting NO, I admit to voting no most elections cycles on the sitting judges. Is that fair? Probably not. Why do I do it? Because I don't want activist judges on "EITHER" side taking it upon themselves to put their agendas ahead of what my fellow Iowans want or need. I don't want to give complete power to any small group of people.
Iowa will be gaining conservatives this go around. We will most likely be saying Governor Branstad again. And that's okay with me. But Iowa is also front and center on same-sex marriage. How did we get here? Activist judges. Don't like it? Vote NO Tuesday and we'll start over.
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...the American judiciary needs shaking up...no matter how the vote goes in Iowa on Tuesday, the cats outta the bag now...voters understand that they can speak out against activist judges....they don’t have to sit there and take it any more.
I regularly vote no on judgeship retentions and were I still a Iowa resident I’d be all over these three alike.
ALL judges should be elected AND subject to the voters for re-upping every 8 years or so.
The Des Moines Register’s editorial writers will be taken away in straight jackets when this happens.
Nice try governor and all you others. If there was ever any judge that SHOULD NOT be retained it's Lawton Nuss!
If all get rejected AND the Constitutional convention gets approved the selection committee likely wouldn’t go that far. They’d fear arousing the convention and the voters to end their racket. The three would each take one for the team and the committee would find three Souters as replacements. If the convention votes fails they might just reseat the rejects, betting that we’d forget it all in ten years and that they can twist enough legislators to block reforms there.
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