Leaders of Iowa's legal community were surprised by the successful campaign to oust three Supreme Court justices who backed a ruling to legalize gay marriage, and didn't do enough to counter it, the new dean of the University of Iowa law school said.Let's move beyond her "the people are stupid" comments because that's typical of a law school where they have 1 registered Republican out of 50 law professors.
``We have not done as much as we could have and should have to educate the electorate about judicial independence, the importance of an impartial judiciary, the role of judges, and the general purpose of a retention election,'' College of Law Dean Gail Agrawal said in an interview...
...Agrawal said she didn't vote in the November election because she hadn't registered in Iowa. She cast a ballot in Kansas, where she had spent the last four years as dean of the University of Kansas law school.
Having moved from Kansas back to Iowa this summer myself, and right around the same time that Agrawal appears to have moved, I thought that it was kind of strange she voted in Kansas since the election was in November and I was easily able to vote in Iowa.
Somebody else ("bbodie") caught this in the comments:
I find it interesting that the Dean of the Law School admitted that she cast a ballot in Kansas in the Nov election when the U of I law web site stated that she became Dean in July of 2010. I am assuming that one must move to the location of one's job to become Dean. By November she should have been an Iowa resident. As a certified Iowa election offical I know that to vote where you USED to live is not acceptable. You are supposed to vote for the people that will now represent you. I have had to ask people who admitted that they moved a few blocks away to go to a different polling place because they now lived in a different polling precinct. Iowa now has same day registration and for the Dean of the Law School not to understand the law is interesting to say the least. She voted for Kansas officals without being a Kansasan. She should have known the law.Dean Agrawal and her husband, Dr Naurang Agrawal, closed on their house on Lois Lane in North Liberty on August 20, 2010. Iowa law requires you to register your motor vehicle with the county treasurer's office in your county within 30 days from the date you establish residency. She would have more than enough chances to change voter registration at that time. Iowa also has same day voter registration.
Does any reporter want to ask Dean Agrawal why she voted in Kansas when she was by then clearly an Iowa resident with a job and a house here? Anybody want to rifle through the records to see if Dean Agrawal has registered to vote in Iowa? Maybe look at the license plates on her car? Has she switched her driver's license? Or are laws only for the "little people" like me, Dean Agrawal? The "too stupid to know what they were doing" public.

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