Subject: GOP Power Grab: Bob Vander Plaats on the Iowa Supreme Court?
From: "Rep. Chris Hall" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Hunter Biden Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:46:11 -0500

R. Hunter Biden -

State House Republicans are attempting a power grab to change the way Iowa judges are selected. They want to remove our long-held merit-based system and replace judges with their party activists, like Bob Vander Plaats.

You may remember in 2010, when social conservative, and failed candidate for governor, Bob Vander Plaats, led a campaign to remove three state Supreme Court justices who were part of the unanimous ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

Iowa’s courts are considered some of the best in the county. They been called “efficient, productive, professional and, with exceedingly rare exception, free of corruption.”

Bob Vander Plaats won’t be happy until our every branch of government is completely under his control. His lobbyist is quoted as saying, "Iowa has one of the most activist supreme courts in the country.”

This new Republican plan replaces merit-based judges with social conservatives who have long wanted to erase equal protections, legalize discrimination, and remove a woman’s ability to make reproductive decisions with her doctor.

House Democrats won’t allow another attack on the courts and our state’s constitution.

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Thank you for standing with me,

Rep. Chris Hall, D-Sioux City

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