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I’ll be live, on-location through the primary season. Really looking forward listening to @DocStodden’s Political Explainer podcasts. kopoint: Produced for KoPoint Stories by Doc Stodden Political Director of KoPoint. — — — This inaugural edition of the KoPoint Political Explainer covers everything you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses, including what is actually going on in Iowa [...]
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It looks like Iowa Supreme Court Judges Ternus, Baker and Streit will not be retained. This is a fairly significant development in that these are the judges that overturned the Iowa DOMA earlier this year, legalizing Gay Marriage in Iowa. More importantly, it shows that Iowa voters were unable to…">/via @creepysleepy:
It looks like Iowa Supreme Court Judges Ternus, Baker and Streit will not be retained. This is a fairly significant development in that these are the judges that overturned the Iowa DOMA earlier this year, legalizing Gay Marriage in Iowa. More importantly, it shows that Iowa voters were unable to…
Will Sarah Palin run for President? She Spoke tonight at the Iowa Republican Party’s “Reagan Dinner Will Sarah Palin run for President? She Spoke tonight at the Iowa Republican Party’s “Reagan Dinner: A Salute to Freedom.” @abcnewsradio and @nightline
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Now, here’s that quote with a little thing we like to call context: ’We have to address the pressures that are being applied to that one safe place, the courtroom,’ O’Connor said. ‘We have to have a place where judges are not subject to outright retaliation for their judicial decisions. That’s the concept. Sure they can be ousted and that’s part of the system, but what the framers of our federal constitution tried to do was establish a system of judicial selection where the judges would not be subject to retaliation by the other branches for their judicial actions.’ (http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_n37/court-clerk-justices.html)">From @ghollingsworth and interesting link and analysis on Sandra Day O’Conner and so-called ‘activist judges’:
Now, here’s that quote with a little thing we like to call context: ’We have to address the pressures that are being applied to that one safe place, the courtroom,’ O’Connor said. ‘We have to have a place where judges are not subject to outright retaliation for their judicial decisions. That’s the concept. Sure they can be ousted and that’s part of the system, but what the framers of our federal constitution tried to do was establish a system of judicial selection where the judges would not be subject to retaliation by the other branches for their judicial actions.’ (http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_n37/court-clerk-justices.html)
