Legislators and social conservative activists misused the state’s judicial retention elections in order to attack judges that upheld the rights of same-sex couples, several people familiar with the process say, and are now misusing the another process by pushing to impeach other judges from the bench.
Social conservative groups including the Iowa Family Policy Center (now known as The Family Leader), the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association and Iowa for Freedom launched a major campaign in Iowa last year to remove through a retention vote three Iowa Supreme Court justices that took part in a unanimous finding that a legislative ban on same-sex marriage was a violation of the Iowa Constitution’s equal protection clause.
They were successful in doing so, and expectations are the remaining four justices that supported the unanimous decision will also face difficult retention votes in 2012 and 2016.
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