Articles Tagged: Iowa Supreme Court

Justices will be asked to clear way for ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill

In 2009, a minor controversy in a mid-sized town in Indiana involving two homosexual penguins was resolved when the penguins …

Iowa is facing a severe shortage of contract lawyers willing to represent indigent defendants, meaning the 562 lawyers still taking those cases sometimes face “grueling” caseloads. That number is almost a 50 percent decrease since 2014.

The suit was filed in December 2021 after the governor’s office had failed to respond for up to 18 months to records requests from three separate organizations.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: private school financial assistance on the fast track, LGBTQ legislation takes a left turn in the Iowa House, and lawmakers bring the death penalty debate back from the dead.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: the momentous first week of the Iowa Legislature

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Christensen said the judicial branch is working to solve the shortages of court reporters and contract attorneys in order to avoid delayed justice.

Watch live as Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen addresses Iowa lawmakers on the Condition of the Judiciary in the Capitol at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: the circus that has been the election of the next U.S. House Speaker, and look ahead to the 2023 session of the Iowa Legislature.

Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion rights advocates hope the Iowa Supreme Court will use a case before it to set a more permissive legal standard for considering abortion restrictions.

Justices rule closing of courtroom during COVID violated his rights

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Is Iowa a red state now?

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Mariannette Miller-Meeks has an interesting new address and potentially a primary opponent, Joni Ernst is censured, and Scott Brennan provides his caucus post-mortem.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: more discussion on the Democratic caucuses, a recount changes a statehouse election outcome, Grassley on Trump and the Constitution, and an Iowa town tries to get the Trump campaign to pony up.

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast we bid farewell to the Iowa Democratic caucuses.