Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:52:23 PM
It appears that State Senator John Morse and State Senator Brandon Shaffer like the legal system in Colorado just fine.
I hate to admit it, but SB 142 slipped past me. John Andrews writes a column about it that was published in today's Denver Post. It is called "Judges Coddled by Sweetheart Process".
In it he describes a bill that would have only slightly modified the judicial retention commission system. Tame stuff.
My favorite paragraph was this:
How the bill could possibly politicize anything, committee chairman Brandon Shaffer and vice-chair John Morse did not ask attorney [Colorado Bar Association spokesman D.A. ]Bertram. But Morse did ask me (testifying next) why the eminence and respectability of our judges wouldn't naturally prompt them to step down "when they should," with no need for the tougher scrutiny and potential indignity promised by SB 142.
You may recall my lawsuit, and my judge. Not only did Judge Larry Schwartz not step down when the 4th District Judicial Retention Commission confronted him with my 200 pages of documented misconduct, he thought himself eminent and respectable enough to apply to be a Supreme Court Justice when the Kourlis vacancy occurred.
It is hard to imagine how State Senator Morris could ask a dumber question, human nature being what it is.