And, maybe Federal Judges should be liable to recall after 8 years rather having lifetime appointments...
Ms. O’Connor, (not US Supreme Court Judge), you are retired now. Please retire your mouth, too!
The judges need to be kicked off the courts when they get too progressive...
Iowa Freepers:
Is there any actual chance that the votes are there to remove these three judges?
How many judges have EVER been recalled?
This is why judges like merit retention.
NONE, ZERO judges from Bush v. Gore had any danger of being ousted, in fact they kept their posts by 60%+ at the voting time.
I HOPE at least one judge gets the ax.
The Founders were more concerned about judicial independence than accountability to the electorate. That is why the federal system is the way it is. It produces problems from time to time with various groups but should not be changed. Judges were intended to be above “politics”.
Iowa’s constitution allows this but there is less danger from democracy in a state than in the nation as a whole.
The danger was illustrated early in our history by the impeachment of Justice Chase and the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Jefferson was determined to bring the judiciary under his thumb and those trials were examples of why he was wrong to attack the judiciary’s independence.
The alternative would have judges campaigning for office with all the problems that would entail taking front row. “I’ll acquit you if I can get your vote, etc.” The influence of the Democrat machines is bad enough this would put them beyond touch.
I like LifeSiteNews, but these judges didn't "legalize" anything. Judges don't make law, and they can't amend constitutions. They decide individual cases, and publish their opinions to back up those decisions.
A horrid headline that just plays into the hands of the Left and their judicial supremacist fellow travelers.
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On the one hand, removal of Activist USSC Judges (like Sotomayer and now Dufus Kagan) would be great; but IF the USSC gets packed with conservatives, and the entitlement-dependency continues to grow with Amnesty, it's quite likely that we could have ANOTHER Usurper/Commie in the White House at that time, nominating even WORSE replacements that we would have to endure for 8 years, in which time there will be no USA to save (we'll be just another turd world country in the UN's dictatorship).
Instead, they should be removed because clearly they are complete decoupled, insane people who should not be anywhere near a good office of the people.
“We believe it has been politicized and that is why we have the retention vote,” Vander Plaats said. “The retention vote is an accountability mechanism. When court gets out of balance, the people then have a say and can rein it in. The process becomes political in our opponents’ eyes when the people rise up to exercise their freedom of speech as protected by the Constitution and the courts.”
Well said. That is exactly why most state level supreme courts justices are subject to be “sustained” on regular intervals.
I wished at time that the SCOTUS justices were subject to removal by failure to be “sustained.” The court is already a political animal and long since lost any “honest broker” standing.
Go Iowa!
Ping. What has become of the ND88? Is there judicial action pending against these 88 people because of Notre Dame?