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Colorado’s Supreme Court justices were generally aware of a memo containing allegations about judicial misconduct nearly two years before it was made public, according to testimony one of the justices gave in an unrelated federal lawsuit deposition. It is the first acknowledgment that the members of the court knew about the memo shortly after it…

The Colorado Judicial Department on Wednesday announced it had signed a pair of contracts for independent investigations into allegations of widespread misconduct across the branch that included a quid-pro-quo deal to a former high-ranking official who threatened a sex-discrimination lawsuit that would reveal it all. The contracts, to total no more than $350,000, were awarded…

Judges in Colorado — apparently including members of the state’s Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court — have engaged in personal misconduct without repercussions, according to the contents of a memo Colorado’s judicial system made public Monday. The memo details sexual relationships between a lower court judge and his staff, pornographic videos sent over…