A major set of election reforms, constitutional protections for abortion rights and a series of tit-for-tat battles over property taxes and environmental regulation top the long list of measures that may appear on Colorado ballots in November. “There’s going to be about 47 ballot measures on a really long ballot,” joked Theresa Conley, chair of […] The post Dozens of high-stakes initiatives could appear on Colorado’s 2024 ballot appeared first on Colorado Newsline.
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For better, for worse, and possibly forever
This article was published online on April 13, 2021.
In July, Michelle Rick, then a circuit-court judge in two Michigan counties, tweeted cheerily about a divorce she’d recently finalized. The participants had appeared in court via their smartphones. “He was on the road & parked his car to attend; she video-tx’d from her work breakroom,” the judge wrote. They were done in 15 minutes faster than the proverbial Reno divorce.
Last spring, as COVID‑19 infections surged for the first time, many American courts curtailed their operations. As case backlogs swelled, courts moved online, at a speed that has amazed and sometimes alarmed judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. In the past year, U.S. courts have conducted millions of hearings, depositions, arraignments, settlement conferences, and even trials nearly entirely in civil cases or for minor criminal offenses over Zoom and other meeting platforms. As of late Fe