Iowa has it right, and we hope that other states take the idea and run with it. We have a major problem in this country, and that’s judges legislating from the Bench when they think the Citizens are too stupid to know what’s right and good for them.
Iowa voters kicked three Statist Supreme Court alleged judges off the bench. They had overturned the will of the people and made same sex marriages legal in that state. If the Citizens through their legislators had created a law for that it would have been an okay thing, but they didn't.
Iowa has a pretty cool system for controlling out of control judges called the “Missouri Plan”. A politically balanced committee nominates the judges and from them the governor appoints. After that they are up for reelection. These three judges, Chief justice Marsha Ternus and justices David Baker and Michael Streit lost their reelection bid. The idea that judges are in that position for life was a good one, but that was when judges knew the Constitution and Law. What was a good idea to avoid political influence has been turned on its head so judges now use their power to overrule the Citizens and impose their own Leftist view of the law. The worst example of this is when a few months ago a California alleged judge, gay by the way, overturned a proposition overwhelmingly approved by over 7 million voters, stating the definition of marriage is something only between a man and a woman.
We commend the Iowa voters for their right decision. There are several states where judges have ruled the will of the people unconstitutional, when in fact the laws were just un-Liberal. We need to see more states with the Missouri Plan. Judges shouldn’t be above the rule of law either.
