Tag: Supreme Court
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Colorado courts yet another First Amendment drubbing | Jimmy Sengenberger
Colorado’s propensity for targeting free speech is legion. Now, it’s gaining national notoriety. Just last month in Chiles v. Salazar, a rare 8-1 Supreme Court majority dismantled Colorado’s law restricting youth therapy regarding gender identity — the state’s third admonition from the high court for speech overreach. That trend caught the attention of noted George Washington University law professor and Fox News legal…
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda
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WASHINGTON • The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs on Friday, handing him a major loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs the president levied on nearly every other country. In imposing the…
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Andrea Wang, water and energy expert | SUPREME COURT FINALISTS
When the late Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey authored a 2002 opinion in the complex and long-running Taylor Ranch case involving landowners’ claims to access a 77,000-acre tract in the San Luis Valley, she worked with her law clerk, Andrea S. Wang. “She’s just a very thoughtful person, and her writing style is good. I found…
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Another free-speech case Colorado deserves to lose | Jimmy Sengenberger
Colorado is back before the U.S. Supreme Court — defending yet another law trampling free speech over gender identity and sexual orientation. And once again, the state looks headed for defeat. On Tuesday, the justices heard Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge brought by licensed counselor Kaley Chiles against Colorado’s ban on any counseling of minors…
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Colorado Senate committee balks at governor’s judicial discipline nominations
In a bipartisan rebuke of how a years-long scandal has been handled, a Colorado Senate committee on Monday made the rare move of not approving the gubernatorial reappointment of the top two members of the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline. Just months after voters statewide overwhelmingly chose to change how Colorado disciplines judges, the state…
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Vince Bzdek: How to respond to all that is happening? Be the People
It’s the bane of my profession that we always try to make sense of things. How to make sense of all that has happened in the past few months: Donald Trump’s return and the practice of politics by executive order; the rise and apparent fall of Citizen Musk in a few short weeks; the crackdown…
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Supreme Court leans toward narrowing environmental law
Some legal experts concluded following oral arguments that U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to limit the scope of the nation’s premier environmental protection law in deciding the case of a proposed 88-mile railroad that would haul oil from an oilfield in Utah through Colorado. The railway has been discussed for many years. In 2018,…
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Supreme Court justices could limit the scope of environmental protection laws in Uinta Basin oil railway case
U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to limit the scope of the nation’s premier environmental protection law in deciding the case of a proposed 88-mile railroad to haul oil from an oilfield in Utah through Colorado, some legal experts concluded following oral arguments on Dec. 10. The case has the potential to affect decisions by federal…
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New insider complaint alleges widespread coverups in Colorado Judicial Department
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In an elaborate and precisely laid-out missive that stretches more than 330 pages — with better than 3,100 pages of additional exhibits — a complaint filed with three state commissions and the FBI alleges a far-reaching and ongoing conspiracy within Colorado’s judiciary designed to conceal years of alleged lying, retaliation and misuse of public funds that began…
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Energy companies file emergency petition with Supreme Court to stay EPA rule
Petitioners argue EPA overstepped regulatory authority and violated cooperative federalism