It doesn't look like there's much of a threat to this ruling. To amend the Iowa Constitution, the proposed amendment has to be approved by the Iowa legislature in two successive sessions before it is put before the voters. Sen. Gronstal has already announced that "there will not be a vote as long as I am the majority leader." So this pushes the first vote in the Senate out until the 2011-2012 session, which means the earliest an amendment could come before the voters would be 2013. And that assumes that the Senate changes hands in 2010. If the Senate doesn't change hands (Democrats have a 32-18 advantage), then the date for a popular vote is pushed out even farther.