Tag: Scotus
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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…
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Appeals court finds no discrimination in prosecutor’s removal of Asian juror from murder trial
The Court of Appeals also rejected the defendant’s other claims based on prosecutorial misconduct and a juror who brought a comic strip for the judge
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Colorado Supreme Court examines reasonableness of DPS search of student on ‘safety plan’
The constitutional challenge to the student’s backpack search narrowed to the question of whether he had notice his safety plan was in effect
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear latest LGBTQ discrimination case against Masterpiece Cakeshop
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will decide whether a Lakewood cake maker violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when he declined to supply a cake to celebrate a customer’s gender transition, or if the First Amendment protected his refusal. The case involves…
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10th Circuit upholds validity of federal sentencing recommendations
When Congress created the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 1984, it intended to reduce disparities in criminal sentencing at the federal level by developing a set of guidelines, which trial judges now reference during sentencing. However, the guidelines are also accompanied by commentary — notes that clarify and expand upon the meaning of the guidelines. In recent…
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SCOTUS hears challenge to Colorado stalking law, with questions about modern ‘sensitivity’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For nearly two years, Billy Raymond Counterman sent a musician thousands of unsolicited Facebook messages, carrying on a one-way conversation as if he had a relationship with her. Then things escalated. “Was that you in the white Jeep?” “I’m currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks…
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SCOTUS takes up ‘true threats’ case out of Colorado, the latest in a series of state court appeals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The nation’s highest court has shone a spotlight on Colorado’s typically low-profile Court of Appeals, agreeing to review a decision of the 22-member court for the second time in under a decade. The U.S. Supreme Court, in granting appeals, occasionally gives the green-light to federal…
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Colorado churches denied U.S. Supreme Court consideration in COVID-19 restriction challenge
Two Colorado churches that claimed COVID-19 restrictions violated their religious rights and won a U.S. District Court ruling on mask mandates and capacity restrictions last year won’t have a chance at a second go-round. Pastors of Denver Bible Church in Wheat Ridge and Community Baptist Church in Brighton on Tuesday lost a request for the…