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Your understanding of the health care debate is truly comprehensive and thoughtful. We must always be concerned with both individual rights and the common good. (more…)

What do you get when you cross a leftist presidential administration with a modern media complex intent on furthering its politically-correct vision of America? (more…)

In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would (more…)

Both policy realities and military realities were shortchanged in today’s Denver Post editorial, “The Reality of Closing Gitmo.” (more…)

Nagel Diagnoses the Unrestrained Judiciary

“If the root cause of judicial excess is the way lawyers think, what is to be done?” So asked CU law professor Robert Nagel in an important article four years ago, with insights even more timely as we anticipate the seating of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “It is necessary,” Nagel answers, “to look for those lawyers who are confident enough and independent enough to challenge established patterns of thought and deeply ingrained instincts. And it is necessary to recognize that the nomination and confirmation processes may even then not be fully adequate to restrain the Court. Renewed attention needs to be directed at other political checks (more…)

“We must never forget it is a Constitution we are expounding”- Chief Justice John Marshall (more…)

(Denver, June 5) A coalition of Colorado groups and concerned citizens joined forces today in opposition to President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Organized as the Colorado Judicial Network, they are urging the US Senate confirm only highly qualified individuals who put the rule of law ahead of personal political agendas. As former State Sen. John Andrews put it: “Barack Obama said he wanted to remake the Supreme Court with his judicial nominees. (more…)

With President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the nation is in a debate (more…)

Barack Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor is par for the course with this president, a man who ascended the presidency on the basis of a compelling personal story (more…)

“Anything goes” in college classrooms: that’s the message of Ward Churchill’s legal victory this week, according to Stephen Balch (more…)

(Denver Post, Apr. 5) “We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.” Reagan’s words speak defiance to statism, but they are only as true as we make them. The 2010 election is Coloradans’ chance. Supreme Court justices Mary Mullarkey, Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, and Nancy Rice will be up for another 10-year term. Poor stewards of the law since they last faced voters in 2000, all four deserve dismissal. (more…)

Colorado’s constitution plainly says that state and local governments can’t raise taxes without voters’ permission. If only (more…)

Here’s more on the issue of detainees in the Global War on Terror, the story that just won’t die. After railing for years against (more…)

Action from 2/22 Radio: For breaking an ID theft ring of over 1300 illegal aliens, DA Ken Buck finds himself sued by ACLU (more…)

Colorado Media Matters can’t get the facts straight on the Guantanamo detainees. That must be why they go off on tangents (more…)