Newt Gingrich secured $200 thousand for a successful campaign by anti-gay groups last fall to oust Iowa Supreme Court justices who voted to allow gay marriage in Iowa, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Judges in Iowa are appointed, but the general population votes whether to keep them on at the end of a term.

… [S]ocial conservative groups like the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association, and the Family Research Council started a campaign to boot three of them from the bench. They were eventually successful…