In a scathing 11-page letter, the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline this week doubled down on its claim that the state Judicial Department and Colorado Supreme Court have blocked the commission’s efforts to investigate alleged judicial misconduct.
Commission Executive Director Chris Gregory, in the letter and two 12-page appendices, laid out multiple ways he says the Judicial Department blocked the commission’s efforts to investigate potential misconduct over the last two years, including by refusing to share records and documents, by stalling the commission’s“The bottom line is this: Members of the Colorado Supreme Court, directly and through its senior staff, made a series of decisions and took a series of actions throughout 2021 and...
“The commission’s response… omits many relevant statements, ignores important context, in some instances misstates discussions, misquotes language from the department’s written communications, modifies quotes to imply something other than what was stated , and falsely attributes ill-intent to many members of department leadership,” the statement reads. “The commission’s communication is disheartening. Obviously, we disagree with the commission’s characterization of events.
“The chief justice mentioned to Bill that the department’s interest was to provide all of the information available, but that there was no way around the fact that privileged and confidential information would maintain its privileged and confidential status when produced to the Commission,” McCallum said in a statement.
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