Majority of voters disagree with Agrawal

I was disturbed by the Jan. 14 article in which Gail Agrawal, recently appointed dean of the University of Iowa College of Law, stated, “We (leaders of Iowa's legal community) have not done enough to educate the electorate about judicial independence.” In other words, the all-knowing intelegencia has not illuminated Iowa's dimwitted voters.

I think we do understand and respect judicial independence, but apparently Dean Agrawal has not yet discovered that Iowa voters also think independently. Iowa's voters sent a message telling the judiciary that any changes in Iowa's marriage laws ought to be decided by either the voters or their elected representatives, instead of being imposed on them by “judicial independence.”

Dean Agrawal also stated: “Iowa's merit system for selecting judges is seen as a national model and should be protected.” The last state panel selecting candidates from which the governor has to select new Supreme Court Justices included 12 Democrats, one Republican and one Independent. It sounds like at least Democrats would like to see it protected.

This rather lengthy article contained no dissent about the elitist opinions of Dean Agrawal. The Nov. 2 election suggests that a majority of your readers might not agree.

Dick Roggensack

Waukon