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Ritter To Appoint Lesbian Activist Deputy Atty. General Monica Marquez To Colo. Supreme Court

by | 1:27 pm, September 8, 2010 | 3 Comments

As anticipated, lame duck Colorado Governor Bill Ritter will appoint lesbian activist, Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez to replace Mary Mullarkey on Colorado’s embattled Supreme Court, according to a report by the Denver Post’s top political correspondent, Lynn Bartels.

Monica Marquez ( DENVER POST-RJ SANGOSTI)

Marquez has the needed pedigree.  A law degree from Yale,  Lesbian activism, and a dad who was the first Hispanic to serve on the Colorado Court of Appeals.  We don’t know much more about Marquez or the other two finalists  as they all jointly refused to speak to the public, despite their contact information being provided for exactly that purpose.

She would be the second Hispanic to serve on the Colorado Supremes, and perhaps the only one  should Justice Alex Martinez lose his bid for retention in November.  Marquez, who obtained her law degree in 1997,  has scant experience – and almost all of it defending state government and its employees.  A much nicer photo of Marquez sporting a more stylish haircut is here, together with photos of her co-finalists. [deleted because Law week web site infected with malware]


Anyone who thinks Marquez’ votes on any of the disputed tax and other issues of legitimate concern to the public would be any different from Mary Mullarkey’s votes is delusional.

Clear the Bench Colorado may well have prompted Chief Justice Mullarkey’s resignation, and they and tireless Director Matt Arnold should be applauded for that effort.  It’s an important first step.

But until we achieve systemic change in the judicial branch, we are doing nothing more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.  Worse, we fool people into believing that cosmetic cures mean something when they don’t.  Such deception will only slow reform, not aid it.  What Bill Ritter has given us appears to be a younger, more virile model of Mullarkey.


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Comments

  1.   Rebel
      September 8th, 2010 @ 5:34 pm

    …and she is working for that alleged Republican, a RINO John Suthers! With Republicans like Suthers, Norton, Owens, etc. who needs Democrats.

  2.   Kevin J Jones
      September 8th, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

    Is there any reason to think she won’t engage in the same kind of culture war via judicial activism practiced by the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Judge Vaughn Walker?

    I wonder if there’s any chance that the “pro-life” Ritter appointed a pro-life lesbian judge?

    Moral turpitude alone should have removed her from consideration. But I guess turpitude is considered a plus nowadays.

  3.   Laura Victoria
      September 8th, 2010 @ 9:09 pm

    Rebel, glad you recognize Suthers is pure RINO. He has a lot of defenders for some strange reason. He has endorsed other RINOs (who have lost) and is responsible for giving an unfair reprimand to Ken Buck. He is also very weird. (Read his book samples on Amazon and you’ll see what I mean).

    Our biggest concern has been state laws that are unconstitutional – in violation of Tabor, etc. So we get a professional government defender of state laws, with a mere 13 years in law practice, whose Daddy was the first Hispanic on the Court of Appeals.

    28 people besides these three applied. We, the public, are not permitted to know who they are. Only the insider legal establishment is. Non-leftists were probably among the applicants but we are not allowed to know their identities. It’s a special government secret.

    Matt Arnold at Clear the Bench made a hilarious point – at least they won’t have to change the monogrammed towels. You can rest assured that if the three others lose retention their replacements will also just be newer and longer lasting models of the same Ol’ same Ol’.

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