KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE State supreme court elections are often ignored by the public and the media, but they can have a dramatic impact on public policy, especially in the post-Roe v. Wade era, when abortion policy is being sent back to the states. Numerically, 2024 is a very big year for such elections: They will be held in 33 states. And in several of those states, ideological control of the court could shift depending on the results. This year, Michigan, Ohio, Montana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, and Florida will be home to some of the most consequential supreme court elections.
Although every judge on the Colorado Supreme Court is appointed by the governor, all of whom were Democrats, at some point voters get a say at the ballot box in an up or down vote on whether to retain judges on the bench for another decade.
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A majority of justices on the Colorado Supreme Court recently determined that former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to hold office again. It was a ruling that resulted from
It remains an open question whether what happened on January 6, 2021, was really an 'insurrection' and whether Donald Trump’s speech incited the crowd. Happily, four judges in Colorado don’t have the last word.