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The cataract of special interest money released by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision has subjected Americans to a staggering assault of negative advertising and character assassination. But candidates for District Attorney in the 18th Judicial District offered an island of civility in this river of vilification last Wednesday when they faced off at [...]
For ninety years after it achieved statehood in 1876, Colorado elected its judges in partisan elections. As a result, mining and other business interests had so much clout in the courtroom on high profile cases that historian Page Smith lumped the judiciary in with the corrupt executive and legislative branches in labeling Colorado’s state [...]
It’s a fine and righteous thing to honor past heroes of conscience such as former Gov. Ralph L. Carr, whose name will adorn Colorado’s new state judicial complex. But Denver Manager of Safety Alex Martinez believes it’s even more important to look into the future and ask what our grandchildren will think about the [...]
– Comedian Mel Brooks is famous for his line: “It’s good to be the king.” But when an irresistible optimism meets an immovable state fiscal crisis, it’s also good to be the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. This truth was found to be self-evident when Chief Justice Michael Bender addressed [...]
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 [...]
To the surprise of no one, the U.S. Congress headed to its pre-election recess without passing major legislation to address the issue of global climate change. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, removed the “cap and trade” provisions intended to reduce the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions from the energy bill before introducing a stripped-down [...]
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 [...]
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