Colorado Senate kills bill to repeal unconstitutional ‘Amazon Tax’ – one of ten “Dirty Dozen” tax increases held over from 2010

by CTBC Director | 12:05 pm, May 12, 2011

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” – Mark Twain (1866)
Although the 2011 legislative session is now (happily) concluded and part of the history of Colorado Politics, the effects of the bills passed this session and last will continue to be felt for some time…
Case in point: [...]

Another One Bites the Dust? Unpopular ‘Amazon Tax’ may be 3rd of the “Dirty Dozen” tax increases to be repealed this year

by CTBC Director | 5:11 am, May 9, 2011

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” – Mark Twain (1866)
Occasionally, however, the legislature can succeed in undoing previous acts putting one’s life, liberty, or property at risk…
State legislators made some progress this week towards repealing another one of last year’s “Dirty Dozen” tax increases (which exploited a Colorado Supreme [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discusses judicial accountability in Colorado on KFTM radio April 27th

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, April 30, 2011

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discussed the judicial accountability movement in Colorado – from CTBC’s launch in April 2009 through the present – in a wide-ranging interview with Michael Schaus on KFTM Radio on 27 April 2011.
Topics include the formation of Clear The Bench Colorado, examples of how the Colorado Supreme Court violated the [...]

Friday Funnies – Sarcastic Supremes, and a “Cat Tax” upheld

by CTBC Director | 11:22 am, April 22, 2011

“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” Jimmy Buffet
Nowhere is this more true than dealing with Colorado’s consistently confusing and often arbitrary legal system and out-of-control judiciary – where the ruling majority on the Colorado Supreme Court recognizes no constitutional constraints, no limits to its untrammeled authority, no checks or balances to its power [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold interviewed on Rob McNealy Show

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, January 22, 2011

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discussed the Colorado judicial accountability effort in 2010 (and beyond) on the Rob McNealy show, Thursday 13 January 2011.
(Listen to the podcast here – the segment starts at the 47:00 minute mark)
The fight to reform Colorado’s corrupt legal/judicial complex continues.  Clear The Bench Colorado is working to hold the [...]

Colorado State of the Judiciary: “lean and efficient” courts or “Judicial Hellhole?”

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, January 15, 2011

Newly appointed Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender (who was retained in office by the most narrow margin in Colorado history for an incumbent state supreme court justice along with his colleague, and ideological ally, Alex Martinez) delivered his first “State of the Judiciary” address before a joint session of the Colorado General Assembly on [...]

Friday Funnies: …and a Leftist Judiciary!

by CTBC Director | 9:35 am, December 17, 2010

Welcome to the 2010 Christmas edition of the Clear The Bench Colorado Friday Funnies!
In all of the tumult, toil, and trouble of the weeks leading up to the 2010 judicial retention elections (and in the weeks following), Clear The Bench Colorado has been far too serious, falling short in our mission to amuse, in addition [...]

Colorado Supreme Court ruling produces plaintiff windfall

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, November 28, 2010

Last week’s Colorado Supreme Court ruling in the Volunteers of America v. Gardenswartz case created a windfall win for personal injury trial lawyers (the “ambulance-chaser” set) and incidentally, some of the clients they represent, in collecting damage reimbursements above and beyond amounts actually paid.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s “Mullarkey Majority” (yes, Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey wrote [...]

Judicial Performance Review Commission charged with bias

by CTBC Director | 11:19 am, November 19, 2010

In a development which should come as no shock to astute observers of Colorado’s “judicial merit selection and retention” system, the state’s 10th Judicial District performance review commission has been charged with bias in conducting “reviews” of judges in the district, as reported in a Pueblo Chieftain newspaper article (”Officials stand behind performance commission“) earlier [...]

A Tale of Three States: Comparing judicial retention elections in Iowa, Kansas, and Colorado this year

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, November 12, 2010

This year’s judicial retention elections were not just a hot topic in Colorado, but also in numerous states across the country.  Judicial incumbents faced opposition to their continued retention in office in states ranging from Alaska (where an anti-retention movement against one of the incumbent state supreme court justices got off to a late start [...]

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