After Iowa Judicial Ouster, a New Move to Bounce Other Justices
17th December 2010
Last month, Iowa voters ousted three of the seven justices on the Iowa Supreme Court – a move that was widely recognized as a referendum on the court’s decision to strike down a ban on same-sex marriage last year.
Apparently the ouster of the trio wasn’t enough for some new members of the Iowa House. Three freshman Republican members are drafting legislation that would begin the process of impeachment for the remaining four justices on the state Supreme Court.
According to this story in the Iowa Independent, the trio is working on the legislation that could result in the removal of the four justices — Mark Cady, David Wiggins, Daryl Hecht and Brent Appel.
Democracy! Such a deal!
“Are Republicans really considering shutting down state government to pursue an extreme, partisan agenda that will do nothing to help middle class families?” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Democrat, said to the Iowa Independent. “The House has no business spending weeks on impeachment proceedings instead of putting Iowans back to work and growing our economy.”
Same old tired Democrat talking points! How stale! Note the tired hack phrases ‘extreme partisan agenda’ and ‘middle class families’ … as well as the standard socialist agenda that it’s the government’s business to ‘put Iowans back to work’ and ‘grow the economy’, when it was the government that caused the problems in the first place.