colorado constitution
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Title Board advances proposed constitutional amendment to raise threshold for judicial retention
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The Title Board on Wednesday advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would require at least 55% of voters to support a judge’s retention, rather than the simple majority that is needed currently. However, the change, if enacted, may have limited impact. Of the judges and justices who were retained in 2020 and 2022, none received less…
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Title Board advances proposed constitutional amendment to raise threshold for judicial retention
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The Title Board on Wednesday advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would require at least 55% of voters to support a judge’s retention, rather than the simple majority that is needed currently. However, the change, if enacted, may have limited impact. Of the judges and justices who were retained in 2020 and 2022, none received less…
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Title Board advances proposed constitutional amendment to raise threshold for judicial retention
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The Title Board on Wednesday advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would require at least 55% of voters to support a judge’s retention, rather than the simple majority that is needed currently. However, the change, if enacted, may have limited impact. Of the judges and justices who were retained in 2020 and 2022, none received less…
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Colorado cap on monetary damages not unconstitutional, appeals court rules
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Colorado’s second-highest court last month rejected an attempt to declare the state’s cap on certain monetary damages unconstitutional, noting it could not overturn prior federal and state Supreme Court decisions on the subject. An Arapahoe County jury awarded Jacqueline Gebert $2.7 million in damages after a Sears repairman incorrectly rewired her stove and caused her…
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ACLU of Colorado calls on local governments to let those with felony convictions run for office
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The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to 12 Colorado governments Wednesday, demanding they stop barring people with felony convictions from running for public office. This warning comes after the ACLU successfully sued Aurora last year for the city charter’s prohibition of former felons from holding elected office. An Arapahoe County judge permanently blocked Aurora…
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Coloradans can find common ground in defense of property rights
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Colorado is a great state, a state that comes together to solve problems. There is a lot of mudslinging in politics right now, but there’s a potential statewide ballot measure that provides a breath of fresh air. The proposed initiative finds common ground across all party affiliations and unites both rural and urban Colorado communities…
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BIDLACK | A constitution keeps the tyranny of the majority in check
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We may be in the throes of a constitutional crisis. Not in Washington (well, maybe a little, stay tuned) but here in Colorado. This week, a federal judge blocked parts of the measure, approved by voters in 2016, that made it harder to amend our lovely state’s constitution. Specifically, the Judge ruled that provision that…
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Denver League of Women Voters: Let’s talk TABOR
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They’re calling the event “Another look at TABOR” – as in 1992’s voter-enacted Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights – because of course it won’t be the first time skeptics of the epic tax-limiting provision in the Colorado Constitution have eyed it in hopes of changing it. And while the March 19 forum, announced in a news…
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Colorado lawmakers tear into Sessions, Justice Department decision to rescind policy on legal marijuana
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, said on Twitter Thursday he’s “prepared to take all steps necessary” to block a reported move by Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversing federal policy that has has let states legalize recreational marijuana. His Democratic counterpart, Michael Bennet, said the decision will “create unnecessary chaos and confusion.” “This reported…
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YESTERYEAR: Mock convention held to crack open Colorado’s Constitution
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Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman: An advisory board, which consisted of four dozen office holders, journalists, business leaders, as well as the governor and chairmen of both the state Democratic and Republican Parties, proposed a model constitutional convention to be held in Denver. The purpose of the “mock” convention was to evaluate…
