Colorado Supreme Court

Extracted Attributes

• Location

  Denver, Colorado, United States

• Composition

  7 Justices (1 Chief Justice, 6 Associate Justices)

• Headquarters

  Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center (opened 2013)

• Founding Date

  1876

• Appointment Method

  Gubernatorial appointment from a commission-approved list

• Justice Term Length

  10 years (following a 2-year initial retention period)

• Mandatory Retirement Age

  72 years

Timeline

• The Colorado Supreme Court was established upon Colorado's statehood. (Source: Wikidata)

  1876-01-01

• The Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center opened in Denver, serving as the court's new headquarters. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2013-01-01

• Governor Jared Polis appointed Maria Berkenkotter to the court, succeeding Chief Justice Nathan Coats. (Source: Web Search (Ballotpedia))

  2020-11-20

• Chief Justice Nathan Coats retired from the court after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 72. (Source: Web Search (Ballotpedia))

  2021-01-22

• The court ruled 4-3 to disqualify Donald Trump from the Colorado primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-12-19

• The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments regarding the appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court's disqualification of Donald Trump. (Source: Web Search (Trump v. Anderson))

  2024-02-08

• The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Colorado Supreme Court's decision, ruling that states cannot determine eligibility for federal office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. (Source: Web Search (Constitution Center))

  2024-03-04

Colorado Supreme Court

The Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located in Denver, the court was established in 1876. It consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices who are appointed by the Governor of Colorado from a list of candidates approved by a state judicial commission. Each justice faces a retention election two years after their appointment and every ten years thereafter, with mandatory retirement at age 72.

Web Search Results

• Colorado Supreme Court | Colorado Judicial Learning Center

  The Colorado Supreme Court is the state's court of last resort. Its decisions are binding on all other Colorado state courts. The Supreme Court is composed of seven justices who serve ten-year terms. The Chief Justice is selected from the membership of the body and serves at the pleasure of a majority of the justices. The Chief Justice also serves as the executive head of the Colorado Judicial System and is the ex-officio chair of the Supreme Court Nominating Commission. The Chief Justice

• Colorado Supreme Court

  The Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located in Denver, the court was established in 1876. It consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices who are appointed by the Governor of Colorado from a list of candidates approved by a state judicial commission. Each justice faces a retention election two years after their appointment and every ten years thereafter, with mandatory retirement at age 72. ## Powers and duties [edit] [...] While there is a chamber originally dedicated to the Colorado Supreme Court in the state capitol building, the Colorado Supreme Court and Colorado Court of Appeals were located in their own building across the street from the state capitol from 1977 to 2010. In August 2010 the building was imploded to make way for a larger court building. Construction of the new building began in September 2010. That new building, dubbed the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, opened in early 2013. Named [...] On December 19, 2023, in a 4–3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court declared former president Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause and removed him from the state's presidential primary ballot (which was eventually overturned by a 9-0 decision by the US Supreme Court). This marked the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate. A Colorado district court had previously

• Colorado Supreme Court

  Colorado Supreme Court was the first court in the country to determine that the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause applied to Trump. The decision was stayed until January 4, 2024, to allow for appeals. Trump's campaign said they would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said, "Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere [...] | On March 4, 2024, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Trump v. Anderson that Colorado could not remove Donald Trump (R) from its presidential primary ballot. The Court wrote, "responsibility for enforcing Section 3 [of the 14th Amendment] against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not the States." The opinion said that Fourteenth Amendment enforcement in federal elections was not specifically delegated to the states and that "an evolving electoral [...] : : See also: Colorado Supreme Court justice vacancy (January 2021) "Colorado Supreme Court justice vacancy (January 2021)") Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) appointed Maria Berkenkotter to the Colorado Supreme Court on November 20, 2020. Berkenkotter was Polis' first nominee to the seven-member supreme court. She succeeded Chief Justice Nathan Coats. Coats retired on January 22, 2021, when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 72.

• Trump v. Anderson - Wikipedia

  On January 5, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Trump's petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling in Anderson v. Griswold on an accelerated pace; oral arguments were held on February 8, 2024. On March 4, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam ruling reversing the Colorado Supreme Court decision. All nine justices held that an individual state cannot determine eligibility under Section 3 for federal office holders, and that such power is [...] The Colorado Supreme Court held that Trump's actions before and during the attack constituted engagement in insurrection; their assertion is that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies presidential candidates who have engaged in insurrection against the United States. The Colorado Supreme Court's ruling in Anderson v. Griswold was the first time that a presidential candidate was disqualified from office in a state on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court stayed its [...] The plaintiffs appealed on November 20. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to take up Anderson v. Griswold on November 21. On December 19, the court ruled in a 4–3 per curiam decision that Trump is disqualified from the primary ballot, reversing the district court's ruling. In its decision, the Colorado Supreme Court noted that not all other states have standards to pre-qualify candidates for primary elections, citing the primary election framework in Michigan; election law in Michigan does not

• The Supreme Court's mixed opinion in Trump's Colorado case

  The Colorado Supreme Court overturned a state district court decision that found Trump had engaged in an insurrection, but that the Section 3 language raised doubts if it applied to Trump. In its 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court said the Section 3 language applied to Trump; that Congress did not need to pass a law to allow Section 3 to go into effect; and the state under Colorado’s election code could enforce Section 3 against Trump. The Per Curiam Opinion [...] On Monday morning, the Court released an unsigned, or per curiam, decision in Trump v. Anderson, a case appealing a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that permitted disqualifying Trump from that state’s primary ballot. All nine justices agreed in the judgment that such a disqualification power was not held by the states. Beyond that, they showed a difference of opinion over the need to define if only Congress can decide disqualification requirements. [...] The five justices pointed to Chief Justice Samuel Chase’s 1869 circuit court decision in Griffin’s Case, and also the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision as requiring a “determination” that Section 3 applies to a particular person “before the disqualification holds meaning.”

• Country

  United States

• Located In

  Colorado

• Instance Of

  Q190752

• Coordinates

  Lat: 39.7381, Lon: -104.987

• Inception Date

  1/1/1876