Maybe They’re Just Doing Their Job?
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“WASHINGTON, April 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Eagle Forum, a leading conservative grassroots organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, condemns the activist decision of the Iowa Supreme Court…”
Steve King (R-Iowa) “This is an unconstitutional ruling and another example of activist judges molding the Constitution to achieve their personal political ends…”
Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University’s Law School: “These activist judges are no more than proselytizing engines of social change…”
Mark Cady, the Supreme Court Justice who wrote Friday’s unanimous landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage in Iowa, was appointed in 1998 by four-term Republican Governor Terry Branstad. Richard N. Palmer, who wrote the majority opinion in Connecticut’s gay marriage case, was appointed in 1993 by Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., an Independent governor who was a former Republican U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator and Republican Presidential candidate. Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall was appointed in 1996 by Republican Governor William F. Weld.