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The rough reception that Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler received before the U.S. Supreme Court when he argued in behalf of the individual mandate to purchase insurance that is the core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act surprised many observers. But the sharp divide on the high tribunal came as no shock [...]
(This article by Bob Ewegen, Director of Research and Communicaltions at the Mile High Law Office, was written for the Colorado Statesman’s upcoming Law Day edition due for publication May 5.) While other states have been rocked by scandals involving their judicial branch, Coloradans celebrate Law Day in 2011 knowing that our time-tested merit selection, [...]
It’s not every day that the usually courtly Justice Greg Hobbs provokes his learned colleague on the Colorado Supreme Court, Justice Nancy Rice, to figuratively blow her top – while a distinguished audience of judges and attorneys bursts into rollicking laughter and appreciative applause. No, it’s not every day – it’s Law Day. The crowd [...]
U.S. District Judge Vaugh Walker’s landmark ruling voiding California’s ban on same-sex marriage has not resulted in a resumption of gay nuptials in the Golden State. But the judge’s thoughtful, 136-page decision did evoke six words that may finally shift this rancorous debate away from the issue of gay rights and into the far more [...]
Unlike Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and other defenders of the late and unlamented Jim Crow on the Senate Judiciary committee, I come to praise Thurgood Marshall – not to sully him. It is perhaps a tribute to the qualifications of Elena Kagan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court that diehard foes like Cornyn have [...]
Poor John Suthers. Colorado’s Republican Attorney General started out trying to emulate South Carolina’s secessionist firebrand John C. Calhoun. But he ended up being linked in the public mind to an even more notorious scofflaw – Willie Horton. Suthers was appointed attorney general in 2004 after the elected incumbent, Democrat Ken Salazar, was elected to [...]
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