Tag Archives: State: Iowa

ADF attorney Douglas Napier appeared on KHOW radio with Caplis & Silverman for a lively discussion regarding Iowa Supreme Court’s marriage ruling. The mp3 runs just under 38 minutes.

Andrew C. McCarthy writes at National Review: The Iowa Supreme Court claims that equal protection under the law, the principle employed to foist its social-justice vision on Iowans, has no fixed standards but changes with the sensibilities of each generation. …

Matthew J. Franck writes at Public Discourse: What happens when judicial arrogance becomes so habitual as to become second nature? This past Friday, April 3, the Supreme Court of Iowa provided an answer: judicial arrogance transforms into smug self-deception. This …

Des Moines Register: All court offices will be closed on Feb. 16, a federal holiday, to save the state money, court officials announced this morning. The Iowa Supreme Court issued an order closing all court offices, including clerk of district …

Ilya Somin writes on the Volokh Conspiracy: Teresa Wagner, Associate Director of the University of Iowa College of Law Writing Resource Center, has filed a lawsuit claiming that her application to become a legal writing professor at the law school …

A voters guide provided by the Iowa Bar Association and the Iowa Association for Justice evaluates the judges, but it does not include information on such issues as where a judge stands on abortion and same sex marriage.”

The Iowa Family Policy Council Action has emailed a report that begins: According to Article 1, Section 2 of the Iowa Constitution, “All political power is inherent in the people.” It is for this reason that officeholders, including judges, are …

Michael C. Dorf has this commentary on Findlaw that begins:  Last week, in State v. Isaac, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed a man’s conviction for indecent exposure. The opinion reads as an almost textbook example of textualism–a method of statutory interpretation …