Author: Colorado Politics

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The panel charged with enacting protocols governing the judicial discipline process has released a set of new rules for public comment. Last November, voters approved constitutional Amendment H to reform how Colorado disciplines its judges. The changes reduced the role of the state Supreme Court, enabled information-sharing about judges’…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Three of Colorado’s sitting federal judges taught part-time at the University of Colorado’s law school while they handled civil cases involving the university or associated entities. On July 30, the advocacy group Fix the Court released…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will review whether the state’s requirement that ballot issue advocacy groups disclose the name of their legal representative on their election communications violates the First Amendment. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear an…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Friday that a judge imposed sex offender treatment for a defendant’s attempted bank robbery conviction in violation of federal sentencing rules. James Robert Clark is serving 78 months in prison for an attempted December 2023 bank robbery in…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked Colorado from enforcing against a Catholic health clinic the portion of a 2023 law that prevents medical professionals from offering “abortion reversal” treatment to pregnant patients. Bella Health and Wellness initially succeeded in obtaining an injunction against Senate Bill…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Monday that a jail employee can violate a detainee’s clear constitutional rights by ignoring an emergency distress signal, even if there is no further information about what kind of emergency exists. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Friday considered whether to release a man in custody who suffered torture at the hands of government authorities in his home country and who remains detained, even after prevailing on multiple occasions in recent immigration proceedings. Exactly two years ago, the…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a Denver woman’s challenge to Colorado’s 32-year-old law restricting proselytizing at abortion clinics, with the ultimate goal of the litigation being to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule its precedent on the subject. In 1993, Colorado legislators enacted a…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge this week imposed more than $90,000 in attorney fees and sanctions on a conservative podcaster whose unsubstantiated claims of election-rigging prompted a series of defamation lawsuits against him and those who broadcast the allegations. In a pair of orders on Monday and…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver-based federal appeals court became the latest on Monday to side against a collection of mineral rights owners in Montezuma County, in a nearly 16-year dispute over a tax increase that has been twice litigated in state courts. A three-judge panel of the U.S.…