Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:38 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge says a Des Moines lawyer who interviewed for a position on the Iowa Court of Appeals but wasn’t a finalist may sue Gov. Kim Reynolds and other state officials, challenging a new law that gives the governor more power over the commission that selects supreme court and appeals judges. Des Moines trial lawyer Thomas Duff filed the lawsuit on Sept. 11.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has pleaded guilty to setting his father’s house on fire this summer after the two argued. The Courier reports that 23-year-old Austin Dean Poyner pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge of second-degree arson. He had been charged with first-degree arson after investigators say he used two cups of gasoline in August to light a cardboard box on his father’s back porch afire.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds says she is taking President Donald Trump at his word that he will uphold an agreement made with farm state lawmakers and agriculture groups to maintain the ethanol requirements in current law. Since Trump became president, the Environmental Protection Agency has given 85 oil refineries exemptions from blending ethanol into the gasoline they sell. Reynolds says the president is trying to walk a fine line between oil and agriculture industries and she’ll keeping pushing the EPA.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is raising record amounts of cash for his 2020 reelection. But it’s not spilling over to vulnerable Republicans fighting to hold their seats in a narrowly divided Senate. Democrats outraised the GOP in key battlegrounds like Arizona and Maine during the third quarter. In Colorado, the Republican incumbent was nearly outraised by a former governor who had been in the race only five weeks. Even in states like Iowa and North Carolina candidates posted underwhelming sums.