judicial appointments and nominations
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Report: Chief Justice did not approve quid-pro-quo deal to silence threatened lawsuit
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A multi-million dollar Judicial Department contract awarded to a high-ranking employee facing firing was not the result of her threatened tell-all sex-discrimination lawsuit but rather a desire to simply keep her employed, according to an eight-month investigation into the deal released Wednesday. The $2.5 million judicial training contract awarded to Mindy Masias in early 2019…
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As Ketanji Brown Jackson undergoes confirmation hearings, Colorado tackles judicial diversity problems
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As confirmation hearings get underway this week to possibly select the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, trailblazers in Colorado’s legal community are taking this moment to magnify what some say is a disturbing lack of diversity among the state’s judges. There are no Black justices on the Colorado Supreme Court or…
