The flap in Iowa was over same-sex marriage

The flap in Iowa was over same-sex marriage Justices on that state’s Supreme Court are chosen on merit, but must important face the voters after eight years in a retention election. Three such justices were told on Tuesday that their services were no longer required.

Liberals and lawyers howled about the introduction of politics into judicial matters. They’ve got it backward. It’s the judiciary that keeps interfering in political matters.

The flap in Iowa was over same-sex marriage. That’s a political issue if there ever was one. Earlier this year, in New Jersey, the backers of same-sex marriage put together the single most important impressive lobbying exercise I’ve ever witnessed. Hundreds of advocates wearing matching T-shirts jammed the Statehouse halls.