Midweek Update: Governor Hickenlooper, AG Suthers seek dismissal of ‘political’ anti-TABOR lawsuit (Fenster’s Folly)

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, August 17, 2011

Predictably (indeed, Clear The Bench Colorado predicted both motion and grounds almost three months ago), Governor Hickenlooper and Attorney General John Suthers filed a Motion to Dismiss the anti-TABOR lawsuit (”Fenster’s Folly“) this week, noting that the lawsuit raises a ”political question” rather than a legal issue and is therefore (as the U. S. Supreme Court [...]

Continued partisan spin and misrepresentations of Attorney General Suthers statement on Colorado Supreme Court justices

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, June 22, 2010

Political enemies of Attorney General John Suthers are STILL attempting to use his principled (albeit uncharacteristically bold) statement that he would vote “NO” on retaining 3 of the 4 Colorado Supreme Court justices on the ballot (Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, & Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) as a political club with which to rhetorically beat him – continuing [...]

Continued partisan spin and misrepresentations of Attorney General Suthers statement on Colorado Supreme Court justices

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, June 22, 2010

Political enemies of Attorney General John Suthers are STILL attempting to use his principled (albeit uncharacteristically bold) statement that he would vote “NO” on retaining 3 of the 4 Colorado Supreme Court justices on the ballot (Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, & Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) as a political club with which to rhetorically beat him – continuing [...]

Petition Supporting Colorado AG Suthers’ Actions to Defend Constitution

by Lu Busse | 7:21 am, March 31, 2010

We learned yesterday afternoon that liberals/progressives had started a petition against AG John Suthers and they had 5,000 signatures.  So in way of the Colorado conservative response, Americans for Prosperity started an online petition FOR his actions.   Here are the text for petition and link: Support Attorney General Suthers Attorney General Suthers is under attack for defending Colorado against the over-reaching powers of the Obama [...]

Thank You Letter to AG Suthers from 10,000

by Lu Busse | 6:21 am, March 30, 2010

March 27, 2010 Dear Attorney General Suthers: Thank you for standing up and defending our individual rights and Colorado’s sovereignty by filing suit against the new federal health care insurance reform act with the other Attorneys General on March 23, 2010.  We truly appreciate your courage and conviction in helping the people of Colorado say “NO” to an [...]

Colorado Legislators propose another new tax increase – openly, this time

by CTBC Director | 11:45 pm, March 24, 2010

For most of the past year, Clear The Bench Colorado has been predicting that the Colorado legislature would not be proposing any new tax increases in this year’s legislative session - at least, not in name.  Good news, right?  Of course, the bad news punchline is that, thanks to the Colorado Supreme Court’s Mullarkey Majority rulings [...]

Federal Healthcare Takeover re-awakens popular interest in constitutional limits on government power, role of courts

by CTBC Director | 2:09 am, March 23, 2010

The massive expansion of Federal government power that culminated in this last weekend’s “historic” vote for what is essentially a takeover of healthcare is an unprecedented intrusion into the most personal of human rights and decisions, in the face of overwhelming popular opposition and openly engaging in the worst kind of dirty machine power politics (arm-twisting, [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado editorial urging “NO” vote on four Colorado Supreme Court justices in Sunday Pueblo Chieftain

by CTBC Director | 7:07 am, March 1, 2010

The Clear The Bench Colorado message is spreading around the state…
Following the recent Denver Post front-page, above-the-fold coverage of the “tough vote” facing Colorado Supreme Court justices in the upcoming statewide elections this November and the resulting domination of the Post’s “letters” section the following week, Sunday’s Pueblo Chieftain published a guest editorial by Clear The [...]

Weekly Wrapup – “Dirty Dozen” tax increases signed into law, Amendment 54 overturned, school districts sue – taxpayers?

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, February 28, 2010

It’s been an eventful week in Colorado – unfortunately, so eventful that it’s been hard to keep up.
Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to give any one of these issues the attention (and analysis) they deserve this week – particularly the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling on Amendment 54, which calls for a thoughtful (and time-consuming) [...]

Judging Colorado Supreme Court justices – more response to front-page news on “tough vote” in November elections

by CTBC Director | 7:47 am, February 22, 2010

This Sunday the “Letters to the Editor” section of the Denver Post was dominated by comment on last Monday’s Denver Post’s front-page, above-the-fold coverage of the “tough vote” facing Colorado Supreme Court justices in the upcoming statewide elections this November.
Much of the letter-writing was devoted to the obligatory rants bashing Jon Caldara and John Andrews, [...]

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