Perhaps the Democrats of the Iowa House are taking too seriously the threats of their Republican colleagues calling for the impeachment of Iowa’s Supreme Court Justices. In spite of the fact that a majority of Iowa voters were persuaded to vote not to retain the three justices on the ballot last November, it seems that hardly anyone is so thoroughly misinformed as to believe that any judicial ruling constitutes grounds for impeachment. I suggest that, if the Republicans do propose impeachment, the Democrats should let the issue come to a vote without stretching out the debate. It is unlikely that such a resolution will be approved by the House because only a small minority of the Republicans will be foolish enough to support it. Even if the resolution should pass the house, it will surely not succeed in the Senate where 34 of the 50 members would have to find the justices guilty. That simply will not happen, but the process will expose the proponents of impeachment as the fools that they are.
Stretching out a debate on an impeachment resolution will divert the House’s attention from other matters of considerably greater importance. I say “give the fools a little rope, and they will hang themselves.”
