Aspen Times: "Elizabeth Starrs, president of the Colorado Bar Association, visited Aspen on Friday to address the Pitkin County Bar Association. Starrs vehemently opposes the amendment, which, she said, would politicize the one branch of government that the United States' founding fathers designed to be free from politics. 'There's a branch of government that's supposed to be insulated from government,' she said. Bringing politics to the bench The problem, Starrs said, is that judges worried about where they will work after term limits sweep them out of office are more easily subjected to political influence. When it comes to issues such as water rights or appeals of lower court rulings, judges have to 'make the unpopular decisions,' she said. "When the question is who gets what, the answer is, somebody doesn't get what they want, and people get upset.'"
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
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