{"id":9049,"date":"2010-11-08T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/08\/more-scary-news-rejection-of-i\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:28:29","slug":"more-scary-news-rejection-of-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/more-scary-news-rejection-of-i\/","title":{"rendered":"More scary news: Rejection of Iowa judges over gay marriage raises fears of political influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Iowa&#8217;s rejection of three state supreme court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage underscored the growing electoral vulnerability of state judges as more and more are targeted by special interest groups, legal scholars and jurists said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just illustrated something that has been troubling many of us for many, many years,&#8221; California Chief Justice Ronald M. George said. &#8220;The election of judges is not necessarily the best way to select them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/nov\/05\/local\/la-me-gay-justice-20101105\">Story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa&#8217;s rejection of three state supreme court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage underscored the growing electoral vulnerability of state judges as more and more are targeted by special interest groups, legal scholars and jurists said Thursday. &#8220;It just illustrated something that has been troubling many of us for many, many years,&#8221; California &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/more-scary-news-rejection-of-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More scary news: Rejection of Iowa judges over gay marriage raises fears of political influence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2lX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}