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Know your judges: New Mesa County appointment highlights Colorado’s selection process

16Jun

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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Know your judges: New Mesa County appointment highlights Colorado’s selection process

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Know your judges I got another old story that got bumped as I got busy, but I didn’t want to let it go due to its importance. Per the article linked first below, Gov. Polis back in early May appointed a new judge in the Mesa County Judicial District. Quoting with link intact: “Effective on July 1, 2026, Courtney L. Dinnel will serve as a Mesa County Court Judge. The appointment was made to fill a new judgeship created by SB25-024, which increased the number of judges in certain county courts, including Mesa County’s, by one.” Interestingly, this judge moved all the way from Adams County to Mesa County. Given the way judges are appointed in this state and given Polis’/Democrats’ hold on judicial appointm...

Polis Names Northern Colorado Judge Susan Blanco To Supreme Court

18Feb

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Polis Names Northern Colorado Judge Susan Blanco To Supreme Court

By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics Chief Judge Susan Blanco of Larimer and Jackson counties is the newest member of the Colorado Supreme Court, Gov. Jared Polis announced on Tuesday. “A few words come to mind: Innovation. Excellence. Creativity. Hard work. These are values we need across society,” said Polis during a news conference announcing Blanco’s appointment. Blanco, 48, became a district judge in January 2017. She will join four other former trial judges, including two other former chief judges, on the seven-member Supreme Court. “I’ve conducted home visits, jail visits, and appeared in dozens of Colorado courtrooms witnessing firsthand the extraordinary diversity of our communities and the very vast barriers that many face in accessing justice,” Blanc...

Judicial outcomes are shaped long before cases reach the courtroom

24Dec

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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Judicial outcomes are shaped long before cases reach the courtroom

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project A leopard doesn’t change its spots, Polis’ judicial board stuffing shows he doesn’t either. I thought a follow up on an older Sun article (see the first link below) would be in order. Let’s go back before going forward. The 2023 Sun article details how Polis has stuffed judicial appointing boards with Democrats and Unaffiliateds that (in a startling coincidence) donate to Democrats. I wanted to share an update on the Sun’s numbers from 2023, now that we’ve had about 2 1/2 years more of Polis under our belts. I also wanted to look beyond simply the State Supreme Court nominating commission that the Sun examined. The second link below is to the state’s website for Judicial Nominating C...

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Know your judges: New Mesa County appointment highlights Colorado’s selection process

Polis Names Northern Colorado Judge Susan Blanco To Supreme Court

Judicial outcomes are shaped long before cases reach the courtroom

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