Conservative Republican activist Bob Vander Plaats announced today that he’s set up a formal group, called “Iowa for Freedom,” in an attempt to oust three state Supreme Court justices who legalized gay marriage. “On April 3, 2009, they clearly legislated from the bench by saying Iowa will be a same-sex marriage state,” the Sioux City businessman told reporters in a press conference outside the Iowa Judicial Building. “It is not their place to legislate from the bench. It is the Legislature’s place to make law, not the Supreme Court’s place to make law.”

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