Tag: justice samuel alito
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Judicial discipline commission compares SCOTUS ethical lapses to state judges’ disclosure violations
In an unusually detailed and strongly worded report, Colorado’s judicial discipline body made clear on Friday that dozens of judges broke the law by failing to file financial disclosure statements on time, but that not every instance merited discipline in light of related behavior from the nation’s highest court. The Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline…
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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr., in his dissenting opinion in December,…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…