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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 [...]
– 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 [...]
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 [...]
Here at the Mile High Law Office, we have given this matter deep thought and have reached our own conclusion as to the relevance of Kagan’s sexual preferences to her judicial qualifications. To clothe the applicable legal principle in the Latin that befits a high court nomination, we went online to a Latin-to-English translation site and produced this:
Quisnam dat rattus anus?
In plain English, that translates as: “Who gives a rat’s ass?”
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