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Doesn't change the fact that it's judicial tyranny. You're just deflecting.
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No, Tex, it establishes that you don't have a clue whether or not it is judicial tyranny. Nothing in your hyperbole establishes a "fact" of anything other than you don't know what you are talking about.
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Well Cali, since you're implying you know what you're talking about, would you care to share what constitutional basis the Iowa judiciary had?
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I didn't imply I know what I am talking about with respect to the Iowa Constitution, which is why I haven't opined one way or the other. What I can say with 100% certainty is that Tex is totally unaware of any substantive foundation for his claim that what the Iowa court did was "judicial tyranny."
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I've not read the Iowa Constitution nor the actual full text of the ruling, and I don't think one has to in order to form a legitimate opinion. This is yet another completely irrelevant Cali Coug distraction.
What I have read are news articles discussing the ruling, and commentary by court watchers whose opinion and expertise I trust. But even then, it doesn't take a great deal of expertise to see that there is no right to gay marriage written into the Iowa Constitution. The Iowa justices had to make it up as they went, citing their equal protection clause ... which coincidentally is probably one of the most abused clauses of our own US Constitution. This was judicial activism. There is no other name for it.
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This is governmental abuse of power. It's anti-democratic. It's seven judges inserting their own policy preferences into the law by fiat. Laws like this should be passed by the people, not illegitimately interpreted into a text by an unelected judiciary.
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Archaea? You're opinion is one that I respect. Perhaps you could explain this to a non-lawyer.
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