Hazlehurst's Blog

Colorado Supreme Court – better than SCOTUS?

In a column in today’s New York Times, Timothy Egan opines that President Obama’s choice to fill the current vacancy on the Supreme Court should be someone who, unlike every sitting justice, attended neither Harvard nor Yale Law. Makes sense to me – and, I suspect, to the majority of Coloradans. I’m sure that the [...]

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TABOR, the Constitution and the Kingdom of Colorado Springs

Colleen O’Connor reported this morning in the Denver Post that Herb Fenster, a prominent Boulder attorney, plans to sue the state over TABOR, claiming that the 1992 Douglas Bruce initiative, which extensively amended the Colorado Constitution is itself unconstitutional. “His lawsuit,” O’Connor wrote,“ will argue that TABOR deprives the state legislature of its power to tax [...]

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