Clear The Bench Colorado wins opening rounds in legal battle over “Know Your Judge” campaign finance law violations

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, January 31, 2011

As reported in Friday’s Face The State (”Judge clears the way for Clear the Bench“),
plaintiff Clear the Bench Colorado (CTBC) has won some key battles in its effort to prove that a consortium of groups behind the Know Your Judge website constituted a political committee that failed to comply with laws governing spending and electioneering.
Last week, [...]

Merry Monday Media Review: Clear The Bench Colorado, Colorado Supreme Court in the news

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, December 20, 2010

Clear The Bench Colorado continues to make news (except in the pages of the Denver Post, which apparently continues its editorial policy of suppressing information that might upset its highest-paying – $1.6M/year – tenants) around the state in the aftermath of this year’s judicial retention elections (which gained attention not just in Colorado – again, [...]

Post-Election Media Review: Colorado Supreme Court, judicial retention elections, and Clear The Bench Colorado in the news

by CTBC Director | 7:20 pm, November 5, 2010

Suppose they gave an election, and nobody (well, only a few) knew?
(Shamelessly paraphrasing Bertoldt Brecht’s epic quote, “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came?“)
Sadly, we’ve just seen the question answered: the status quo wins – especially when the status quo is aided and abetted by big money.
Curiously (or perhaps not), there has been [...]

Late-breaking news coverage of “Know Your Judge” consortium violations of Colorado campaign finance law

by CTBC Director | 7:20 pm, November 2, 2010

Arriving somewhat late to the party, but nonetheless providing decent coverage of the issue, the Denver Post joined in the coverage of the campaign finance complaint against the “Know Your Judge” consortium with an (online-only) article late Tuesday afternoon (”Clear the Bench files campaign finance violation claim“).  Following Monday’s Westword article (”Clear the Bench Colorado’s Matt [...]

More news coverage of “Know Your Judge” consortium violations of Colorado campaign finance law

by CTBC Director | 8:28 am, November 1, 2010

Following last Friday’s initial coverage of the blockbuster campaign finance complaint (at up to $500,000 in penalties and fines, potentially the largest in Colorado history, by several orders of magnitude) against the Know Your Judge consortium by Law Week Colorado and Face The State, the consistently thorough and professional investigative journalist Michael Roberts of Westword [...]

Coverage of legal-establishment campaign finance violations

by CTBC Director | 7:20 pm, October 30, 2010

In a “fair and balanced” media universe (even in a world in which the concept of “journalistic integrity” still had any meaning), the violation of Colorado campaign finance laws by a consortium of some of the largest and most powerful legal-establishment special-interest groups in the state (headed by the Colorado Bar Association, joined by the [...]

Buescher Blinks: Secretary of State fails to formalize draft rule issued a year ago, holding open the door for continued “Colorado Ethics Watch” (CEW, pronounced “sue – it’s what they do) attacks on Clear The Bench Colorado

by CTBC Director | 5:55 pm, August 5, 2010

Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher yesterday failed in his duty to provide legal clarity and forestall an ongoing series of harassing attacks (er, campaign finance “complaints”) launched by his roundly rebuked ideological ally “Colorado Ethics Watch” (CEW, pronounced “sue” – it’s what they do) against judicial accountability organization Clear The Bench Colorado.  Rather than [...]

Citizen participation vital in restoring Accountability and Transparency to the Colorado Supreme Court

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, August 2, 2010

For perhaps the first time in our state’s history, an increasing number of Colorado Citizens are taking an interest in the Colorado Supreme Court  judicial retention elections – our only opportunity, as Citizens, to hold the officeholders in our 3rd branch of government (the judiciary) accountable (to the rule of law generally, to the Constitution [...]

Midweek Update – covering Clear The Bench Colorado’s victory over “Colorado Ethics Watch” (CEW, pronounced “sue” – it’s what they do), Colorado Supreme Court elections and vacancy replacements

by CTBC Director | 11:33 pm, July 28, 2010

After Sunday’s Denver Post editorial (”Unintended consequences in judicial push“) missed the point of Clear The Bench Colorado (hint: it’s not about selecting replacements for the incumbent justices; it’s about holding the current justices accountable to the Colorado Constitution, the rule of law, and the citizens whose rights they are sworn to uphold) and ended [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado wins judgement against “frivolous, groundless, vexatious” complaint by “Colorado Ethics Watch” (CEW, pronounced “sue” – it’s what they do), awarded “tens of thousands” in legal fees

by CTBC Director | 9:12 pm, July 21, 2010

Clear The Bench Colorado wins!
Yes, it’s still more than three months until the judicial retention elections in November, when Colorado citizens will be able to exercise their right to vote “NO” on the three remaining ‘unjust justices’ of the Colorado Supreme Court’s incumbent ‘Mullarkey Majority’ who have declared their intent to allow themselves to be [...]

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