# Iowa lawmakers go nuclear on state supremes

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 18, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lawmakers-go-nuclear-on-state-supremes/564632 "2010-12-18T15:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lawmakers-go-nuclear-on-state-supremes/564632/21 "2010-12-20T13:03:17Z")

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You can take the culture war out of the state constitution, but you can’t take the state constitution out of the culture war?

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**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lawmakers-go-nuclear-on-state-supremes/564632/22 "2010-12-20T14:01:11Z")

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> [@Raygun99](#):
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> How is that remotely similar to a judge being removed or voted out of office?

Not to speak for Spavined, but IIRC, he is an attorney practicing in Iowa. The biggest thing in Iowa law circles for about the past year and a half or so, maybe even longer, is the right wing’s attacks on judicial integrity and independence. The fact that the right actually succeeded in booting off three very good judges simply because they didn’t like a ruling on political (and dislike for gays) grounds is a blatant attack on the judiciary. While there is certainly some hyperbole in his post, I think the entire issue of the rights’ attacks on judicial independence and integrity is a huge deal, especially for lawyers.

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iowa-lawmakers-go-nuclear-on-state-supremes/564632/23 "2010-12-20T16:15:06Z")

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> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#):
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> The faction of the Republican legislators who are whooping it up for an impeachment consists of three first termers. Not a big segment of the membership. The thing that is disturbing is that the Republican leadership and the once and future Governor are doing just about nothing to quash these three irrationals.

Just a thought here - tossing it out:  
Is it possible that the GOP leadership is letting these idiots hang themselves? Letting 'em run hard and fast until they hit the end, allowing the leadership to claim ‘clean hands’ in these nutjob’s political demise?  
A long shot, I know, but would be a satisfying one if true.

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