Grassley sold out Iowans as Judiciary chairman

In early 2016, as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley refused to allow our elected representatives to even consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, which had been made according to the precise instructions of the U.S. Constitution. The Senate was required — by the Constitution, by centuries of precedent, and by basic fairness and decency — to consider the nomination. But Grassley took it upon himself to defy our Constitution, and single-handedly killed Garland's legitimate nomination.

By inventing and enforcing a rule that Supreme Court nominations may not be considered during a presidential election year, Grassley turned the Supreme Court into just another tool of partisan hacks. He then helped President Donald Trump install three radical, activist justices — one of them, shamefully and hypocritically, seven days before the 2020 presidential election. Now, those justices are about to revoke your right to privately choose abortion.

Grassley sold his soul for raw power — and sold out Iowans who had long assumed he would do the right thing when it came to fundamental American democracy. His actions will lead to women having unsafe abortions, at the insistence of a radical minority of Americans.

Grassley single-handedly set the table for the biggest revocation of individual rights and personal liberty in American history. Let's remind him of his role by showing him the door this November.

Nic Arp

Iowa City