Colo. AG John Suthers will vote no on justices Mary Mullarkey, Alex Martinez, Michael Bender

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers this morning said he will vote no on three of four state supreme court justices who are up for retention in November’s elections and yes on Justice Nancy Rice.

Suthers will vote against retaining Chief Judge Mary Mullarkey and judges Alex Martinez and Michael Bender, he told the 

Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club breakfast at the Cool River Cafe in Greenwood Village. Most Republicans are supporting the effort to deny retention of all four justices who are up for retention.

Suthers is unopposed in his quest for the Republican nomination for re-election as Colorado’s state attorney general.

Mullarkey is widely despised by Colorado’s Republicans because she and the other four justices are so blatantly partisan in deciding politically controversial cases. If Mullarkey is retained as chief justice this year, next year she will appoint four members of a commission that will redistrict the state. And she will appoint the most reliably Democrat partisans she can find. She and her court also have blatantly supported unconstitutional increases in fees and taxes that have been enacted under Democrat Governor Bill Ritter without having the tax and fee increases taken to voters as required by TABOR.

Of course, if the justices have to be replaced, their removal will mean something only if a Republican is elected governor this year. Scott McInnis and Dan Maes are seeking the GOP’s nomination to run against Democrat Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

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Clear the Bench Colorado; returning accountability to our judicial system.

TABOR has saved Colorado from becoming California, Barry Paulson writes. The Business Word, 10.10.09.

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