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Seems I hit a nerve with my post about Gov. Ritter’s collision with international law if Gitmo prisoners are moved to Colorado (more…)

Slight problem with Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s proposal to bring the Gitmo detainees to Colorado’s SuperMax federal prison complex. (more…)

We need rotation in office, John Adams’ cherished principle, for the judicial branch just as we already have for the legislative and executive (more…)

“We, the people of the United States, in order to . . . secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (more…)

Prosecutors and sheriffs in Missouri are threatening legal action against anyone they believe is lying, not about candidates in general, but about Obama in particular. (more…)

“They don’t like our Constitution,” asserted Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. That incredible remark, uttered on television (more…)

Term limits for judges won’t have enough petition signatures to make the 2008 ballot, proponents announced, vowing to push for other conservative initiatives instead . (more…)

“Cops lie: Don’t trust cops!” was the theme for an hour-long training session for would-be protesters at the Democratic National Convention, held in Denver on April 14 (more…)

“During good behavior” is the constitutional standard for a federal judge to continue serving. Sen. Ken Salazar has wondered publicly (more…)

How does an advocate for judicial reform gain a hearing from the frowning skeptics he’s sure to meet in the pages of a lawyers’ magazine? (more…)

Author: The Watcher

John Andrews says he will try again with judicial term limits, which this writer called a 5% solution last year. In reply, let me lay out the (more…)

Newspapers have reported on a Justice Department celebration of the recent grievous injustice its prosecutors perpetrated (more…)

All Colorado judges would be limited to three terms of four years each, beginning in 2010, under a constitutional amendment proposed (more…)

When a gang of “chip on their shoulders” black youth terrorize and beat white kids, it’s called an “expression of ethnic identity”. (more…)

“Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” (more…)