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Judicial branch tells oversight committees that cost of new judgeships has decreased
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Judicial branch leaders told lawmakers on Monday that their priority for the legislative session — the establishment of 29 new judgeships across Colorado — has come down in cost amid broad concerns about the state’s budget deficit. Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez and State Court Administrator Steven Vasconcellos previously informed the Joint Budget Committee that the cost of…
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Colorado lawmakers sharply divided over drug abuse bills, bail for first-degree murder defendants; meet Heather Graham, Pueblo’s new mayor | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 23, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado lawmakers on Tuesday tackled two proposals that offer convergent – and divergent – approaches to combatting drug abuse during a discussion that starkly illuminated on ideological disagreements at the state Capitol. Both bills emerged out of ad hoc panel, which met over…
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Colorado House speaker turns away Israeli families, proposal requiring pet registration is likely dead | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 6, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A delegation of Israeli officials and representatives of six families of hostages and victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was turned away Monday by House Speaker Julie McCluskie. That wasn’t how it was supposed to happen, according to Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland,…
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Colorado lawmakers want to extend window to sue over child sex abuse claims, protect people’s privacy from machines that can read thoughts | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 1, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado lawmakers want to amend the state constitution to allow them to pass legislation permitting individuals to sue over decades-old claims of child sexual abuse following the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision last June that declared a law granting that ability unconstitutional. The 2021…
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Judicial discipline proposal draws Colorado lawmaker skepticism
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During a legislative oversight hearing on Friday, judicial leaders revealed that a man who broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center earlier this month caused $35 million in damage, resulting in several offices being off-limits for months to come. Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright told members of the House and Senate judiciary committees…
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Federal judiciary again recommends 2 new judge seats for Colorado
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The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has once again recommended that Congress create two new seats on Colorado’s seven-member trial court. On Tuesday, the Judicial Conference of the United States released its list of districts in which the workload merits additional judges, with the largest increases requested in the federal trial courts for California, Texas and Florida.…
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advances Gordon Gallagher nomination
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 14-7 to advance the nomination of Gordon P. Gallagher to be a federal trial judge for Colorado, which would make him the Biden administration’s fourth appointee in two years to the U.S. District Court if confirmed. Gallagher, who is currently a part-time U.S. magistrate judge and defense attorney, would…
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Disciplinary information rarely considered in decisions on judge retention
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Colorado’s system of judicial discipline is so secret that the state’s nearly two dozen performance review commissions that evaluate judges have rarely known for sure whether a jurist they recommended voters keep on the bench had a record of misconduct or not. That shortfall is a critical flaw in the state’s judicial retention process that…
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Contract memo whistleblower expected to appear before Colorado legislative committee on judicial discipline
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Chris Ryan, the former state court administrator for the Colorado Judicial Department who alleged that a tell-all sex discrimination lawsuit by a former employee was silenced by a multi-million-dollar contract – an assertion since refuted by investigators hired by the department – is expected to testify before a legislative committee exploring changes to how judges…
