Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold joins Jimmy Sengenberger on his “Seng Center” radio show Thursday at 6PM (KRCX 93.9 FM or online at regis.edu/krcx) to discuss the Mullarkey Court’s repeated assaults on the constitutional rights of Colorado citizens.
If you missed the broadcast, check out the podcasted show online - shows [...]
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a 2008 raid of a local tax preparer's office aimed at building identity-theft cases against hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants violated their Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
The 4-3 ruling was the latest and most devastating legal blow against [...]
The hectic holiday season is upon us…
Clear The Bench Colorado made national news following Monday’s Colorado Supreme Court decision throwing out evidence gained in a case of identity theft by an illegal (er, “undocumented”) alien resident of Greeley, CO. The Colorado Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, held that [...]
By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable Friends,
This evening, two of my honorable friends here at the PPC, Ben DeGrow and El Presidente, have called my attention to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in The People v. Gutierrez, in which a 4-3 majority ruled that the state violated [...]
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional privacy rights of illegal immigrants when they seized their tax records in an identify-theft investigation, a decision that infuriated illegal-immigration foes.
In a 4-3 decision, the court upheld a March ruling by a Weld County district judge, who held [...]
Friday’s vote by the CSU System Board to institute a “weapons control policy” on campus - essentially, implementing a ban on legal concealed carry of firearms by licensed permit-holders - joins a similar ban by the University of Colorado Board of Regents as policies virtually certain to be legally [...]
So much for constitutionally mandated separation of powers and “checks and balances…”
A recent editorial on the Colorado Legislature’s “Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission” (a 16-member group dominated by big-government advocates thinly disguising yet another attempt to eviscerate - or outright eliminate - the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, TABOR) brought [...]
As the Colorado Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee meets this week to “review agency budgets in advance of the 2010 General Assembly” (and you thought your wallet and property were only at risk while the legislature is IN session), last year’s Colorado Supreme Court ruling upholding the blatantly unconstitutional [...]
In today’s (Wednesday) Denver Post, editor/columnist Vincent Carroll, while taking Scott McInnis to task for “budgetary vagueness” in the ‘Platform for Prosperity’ and other campaign statements to date, lauded the platform (aka ‘Contract for Colorado’) for adherence to constitutional principles:
Today’s announcement (with much fanfare and commentary) of a ‘Contract for Colorado’ emphasizing key principles, positions, or policy prescriptions for conservative candidates for Colorado statewide office picked up on several key themes long espoused by Clear The Bench Colorado. (Although Clear The Bench Colorado is not affiliated with any political party nor [...]
An article in the most recent edition of the Colorado Statesman - a normally nonpartisan and reasonably reliable source of information on Colorado politics and policy - got it dead wrong when mentioning Clear The Bench Colorado at the conclusion of the piece.
Colorado Statesman reporter Janet Simons mischaracterized Clear [...]
