What do you think of this?

[progressoid]

Legal challenge to judicial retention vote is questioned

By GRANT SCHULTE and JENNIFER JACOBS • [e-mail] • December 16, 2010

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Three attorneys allege in a lawsuit filed this week in Polk County that November's judicial retention vote, in which Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices Michael Streit and David Baker were ousted, was illegal.

The attorneys - Thomas W. George, John P. Roehrick and Carlton Salmons - said the Iowa Constitution requires judges to stand for retention on ballots separate from the governor, state lawmakers and other elected figures.

The attorneys are asking for a temporary judicial order that would prevent the three justices from leaving the Supreme Court when their terms end on Dec. 31. They are calling for the justices to remain in office until a new vote can take place on legal ballots.

...etc...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101216/NEWS/12160354/1001/NEWS/Legal-challenge-to-judicial-retention-vote-is-questioned

[HuskiesHowls]

1. I'm thankful someone is willing to stand up for what's right

I'm glad that they found a way to challenge that vote. In trying to keep politics out of the judiciary, there was very little support for them. Yes, there was some, but it was not as loud, or public as was the opposition to them.

I guess that this kind of goes along, too:

3 seek to impeach remaining high court justices

Three Iowa Republican representatives are drafting a bill to launch an impeachment process to oust the four Iowa Supreme Court justices who will continue serving next year.
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Ben Stone, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, said Iowans who prize the integrity of the constitutional system should be greatly concerned.

"Many Iowans are asking themselves how far these attacks on the judiciary are going to go," Stone said.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201012180320

Evidently some people have forgotten what the state motto is:
Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain

[Bluzmann57]

2. The impeachment thing appears to be illegal

No laws have been broken and the idiots who may attempt it had better think twice before they even try. They will only succeed in looking stupid.

[IADEMO2004]

3. Looking stupid seems to be a GOP path to success.

It sure works over here in the 5th

[progressoid]

4. I just wonder if it will amount to anything.

Haven't we always had Judges on the same ballot as elected officials? :shrug: