GOV. OF DENVER STRIKES AGAIN: State Supreme Court Boasts Denver-Only Bench

ColoradoPeakPolitics ^ | June 26, 2015

[george76]

Communities outside the Denver-metro area are peeved that Gov. John Hickenlooper’s latest appointment to the Colorado Supreme Court wasn’t someone who lives outside the state’s capital city.

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We have seven Supreme Court justices and not even one from outside the governor’s adoptive hometown, where professional cliques decide what’s best for the rest of the state.

This isn’t the first time Hick has been slammed for ignoring constituents who live outside Denver. A few years ago, he was accused of launching a war on rural Colorado by passing stricter gun laws and a renewable energy mandate that unfairly targeted rural electric coops.

[Cololeo]

There’s Denver/Boulder and then there’s Colorado.

[george76]

The US Supreme Court is also packed : no real westerners, no protestants, no one from the south, etc. ?

Mostly big city types.

[DaveA37]

It's called “stacking the deck”, “safety in numbers” and many other things. Perhaps Coloradans need to get a law that REQUIRES justices from around the state.

[george76]

America should do the same, too.