He better think twice ...
Cool!
Well played, Hawkeyes.
A very under-reported sidebar of the national tidal wave.
Good for the voters. I’ve always heard it’s next to impossible to get rid of a judge in an election. We had a similar campaign out in CO. I haven’t seen the results, but very little of anything is going our way tonight.
He ought to pass the buck on that one or the Iowa Congress could filibuster his nominations. The message to them couldn’t be clearer.
“Despite the ouster of the judges, though, same-sex marriage continues to be legal in Iowa, and outgoing Democratic Gov. Chet Culver has the authority to appoint the judges’ successors.”
That part is just sick. He can just do it with bringing it before his legislature?
Iowa has an ‘impartial’ panel (of 90% Democrats) who choose a list the gov. will have to pick from. The names will change but the game will be the same.
BTW, the once-and-future Gov. Branstad appointed the dismissed Chief Justice Ternus and voiced no opinion on the judges vote.
Wow. I wish we were this smart in FL.
It seems no matter what the justices do, they always get retained, always.
And for some reason FL always votes in amendments, even though they almost always are written in order to make sure libs have power, even though this is a conservative state. It’s sort of amazing people don’t realize this is the purpose of amendments - to tie a legislature’s hands and give power to judges.
We got this issue right but continue to elect the likes of Boswell, Braley, Loebsack, AG Miller....damn.
Will the voters be tried and convicted of a “hate crime?”