Posted on 10/22/2014 12:57:44 PM PDT by george76
Colorado does not elect judges to office in contested elections (they are appointed by the governor from a list of 3 nominees selected by a judicial nominating commission), but they are required to receive voter approval to retain office (on a 4, 6, 8, or 10 year schedule based on the level of the court).
The Colorado judges seeking retention in 2014 (appearing on the November 2014 general election ballot with a “Yes” or “No” vote option) are: 2 Supreme Court Justices (Boatright, Marquez) 2 Court of Appeals judges (Fox, Loeb) 63 District & 78 County judges (141 total trial court judges)
Unlike the “official” government-sponsored commission “reviews” Clear The Bench Colorado does not insult your intelligence by telling you how to vote – but the following scorecards provide a substantive evaluations of the “work product” of the judges seeking your vote, presented in a scorecard format, to better inform your decision.
Colorado Supreme Court:
The following judicial performance review scorecard summarizes some of the Colorado Supreme Court cases over the current term of office for the justices seeking retention which have had the greatest impact on the largest number of Colorado Citizens (primarily those with broad public policy implications), and how the incumbent justice appearing on the November 2014 ballot voted in each case.
Clear The Bench Colorado’s evaluation methodology – presented at a National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges - has been acclaimed as the best in the nation for evaluating appellate court judges.
Clear The Bench Colorado realizes that it is impossible to present an analysis of every case on which these justices voted; we have selected those cases addressing important constitutional questions. Our methodology closely tracks that supposedly used by the state Commission on Judicial Performance (reviewing cases as the benchmark for assessing judicial performance).
(Excerpt) Read more at clearthebenchcolorado.org ...
I voted “NO” on retaining ALL judges!
Citizen Input on District/County Judges 2014.
http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/know-your-judge-citizen-input-on-districtcounty-judges-2014/
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
I voted “NO” on retaining ALL judges!
Same here.
“I voted “NO” on retaining ALL judges!”
I was talking to one of my co-workers this morning about the same thing. We both voted ‘NO’.
Me too. There's maybe a 20% chance I said no to a good one.
I dropped of my ballot this morning and I, too, voted “No” on all judges. Regardless, ALL Colorado judges up for retention this year and every year are almost certainly going to be retained. I sincerely wish we still had judicial election, which we had until 1966 when voters stupidly acted to go to a merit-based system instead. Since 1966 the judicial-retention system has been a sham. I know we’d elect many bad judges if ewe went back to judicial elections in Colorado, but we’d also get a number of good judges elected./rwa
I voted to clear the bench.
Yep, I always vote against the judges...
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