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 Unpopular ‘Amazon Tax’ may be 3rd of the “Dirty Dozen” tax increases to be repealed this year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 [...]

Cleaning up the “Dirty Dozen” – Agriculture Tax repeal moves forward in state House

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, April 18, 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 one of last year’s “Dirty Dozen” tax increases (which exploited a Colorado [...]

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ Tax Increases: How the 2010 Colorado Legislature exploited a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to (unconstitutionally) take more of your money without asking

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, February 2, 2011

The following article was written for, and originally appears in, The Constitutionalist Today (February edition).
“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” – Mark Twain (1866)
As another legislative session begins, the Colorado General Assembly once again faces a hefty budget shortfall; the projected gap between expected revenue and planned [...]

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 [...]

Political End Runs: How Judges violate the law (and your rights)

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, December 29, 2010

The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges can continue to do end runs around both.
So begins a superb article by esteemed economist and commentator Thomas Sowell, published Tuesday (”Political End Runs“).
Sowell states the case [...]

It’s Official! Colorado is a “Judicial Hellhole”

by CTBC Director | 7:57 am, December 22, 2010

Last month’s Colorado Supreme Court ruling that created a “right” for plaintiffs (more accurately, their lawyers) to collect “recovered damages” over and above costs actually paid was apparently the straw that broke the camel’s back for a group that rates the performance of courts nationwide (as if the Mullarkey-Bender Court’s rulings to sanction unconstitutional tax [...]

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