Subject: U.S. Supreme Court

• Judge Blackburn to Whistleblower: Shut Up Already

  November 7, 2007

• The Bill Ritter Meet the Press Transcript

  June 30, 2008

• Colorado's Bubble Law was the first in the country... but not the last

  September 25, 2008

• Spin Cycles

  Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

  April 16, 1998

• Low Blows

  March 4, 1999

• Blow Up the Box

  TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched . . . and watched

  December 28, 2000

• Murderers' Row

  Until two years ago, Colorado juries weighed whether men deserved to die. Now judges decide their fate.

  June 7, 2001

• Focus on the Family's nightmare scenario about an Obama victory

  October 27, 2008

• Peter Boyles still publicizing Obama birth-certificate story

  November 10, 2008

• Follow That Story

  August 16, 2001

• Off Limits

  April 25, 2002

• Follow That Story

  July 18, 2002

• The Eye of the Beholder

  August 14, 2003

• Wake-Up Call: The bell tolls for Joe Nacchio

  Yesterday, with the news that the San Francisco Chronicle may go down, leaving the free Examiner the only real daily in SF, Phil Anschutz once again looked like the smartest guy in the room.Today, he's also looking like the luckiest. Because before Anschutz bought the dying Examiner label and turned it into a free daily, he was buying up railroads, using the tracks for fiber optic lines, which made Qwest possible. And then in 1997, Anschutz hired Joe Nacchio to run that company.Now an appeals co

  February 26, 2009

• Bite Me

  July 8, 2004

• Seeing Red

  February 19, 1998

• Take 23

  The Denver Internation Film Festival opens this Thursday.

  October 12, 2000

• Day of Our Lives

  April 17, 2008

• Inmates Waitin' Around to Die

  Only one man is on death row, but seven others are waiting in the wings.

  February 28, 2008

• Carved in Stone

  Twenty years after Jim Stone first blew the whistle on Rockwell International, he got his day in court -- the Supreme Court.

  April 12, 2007

• Whistle Stop

  A Supreme Court decision may challenge workers' First Amendment rights.

  June 8, 2006

• Zoning

  Do tape delays slow the 24-hour news cycle?

  October 13, 2005

• Off Limits

  Going, Going, Gonzo

  August 18, 2005

• Shrine On

  You must remember this.

  February 27, 2003

• Derailing Affirmative Action

  Randy Pech says the government's disadvantaged business programs discriminated against his company. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if he's right.

  July 26, 2001

• The Gay Nineties

  Since Amendement 2 passed seven years ago, Colorado Springs has learned a lesson in Family Values.

  November 25, 1999

• Feature

  November 25, 1999

• Home Is Where the Hurt Is

  September 16, 1999

• Sacrifice Zone

  When the country's prison chaplains need to understand Santeria, they come to Denver. Where else?

  September 2, 1999

• The Boom Years

  Twenty-eight years after a nuclear bomb rocked Colorado, its shock waves still reverberate on the Western Slope.

  February 26, 1998

• Free Willy

  As part of his never-ending fight against gays, car dealer Will Perkins gets himself "arrested" in Vail.

  October 2, 1997

• The AG's No. 1 Problem

  A gender-changing lawyer in Gale Norton's office causes a bathroom stink.

  April 10, 1997

• A Fight to the Death

  Frank Rodriguez was sentenced to die twelve years ago. Are we there yet?

  March 6, 1997

• Off Limits

  September 5, 1996

• Adding Insult to Injury

  Pulling the plug on attorney advertising could get somebody sued -- including the State of Colorado

  May 9, 1996

• STAND UP FOR YOUR PRINCIPALS!

  July 5, 1995

• AGAINST THE WIND

  CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.

  June 7, 1995

• JUDGMENT DAY

  DENVER ATTORNEY DAVID L. SMITH HAS MADE LIFE A LIVING HELL FOR HIS ADVERSARIES. NOW HE'S FEELING THE HEAT HIMSELF.OUT OF ORDER DAVID L. SMITH SAYS COLORADO'S FEDERAL JUDGES ARE OUT TO GET HIM. HE'S RIGHT.

  June 8, 1994

• GENTLEMEN PREFER BONDS

  FOR THE FIRMS THAT CRANK OUT DIA'S FINANCIAL PAPERWORK, THE PROFITS ARE SKY-HIGH -- AND THE WORK IS ALL LEGAL.

  May 18, 1994

• A GENDER'S SHOOTING STARS

  March 23, 1994

• Wake-Up Call: Salazar needs to stay put

  Timing is everything. Early on, as president-elect Barack Obama started filling his Cabinet, Ken Salazar's name kept surfacing -- but so did word that what the first-term senator and former Colorado Attorney General ultimately wanted was a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the meantime, he was perfectly content in the Senate. To balance out his picks, however, Obama tapped Salazar for the Department of the Interior, where he now has his hands full undoing eight years of Bush administratio

  May 12, 2009

• Meet Jim Pfaff, leader of Colorado's stop-Sotomayor campaign

  Jim Pfaff. Even Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham concedes that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be approved unless she has a "complete meltdown." But that hasn't prevented conservatives across the country from frightening their ideological comrades with the horrific prospect of a "wise Latina" judge on the most important bench in the land. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the person taking on this mission here is Jim Pfaff, a sometime radio host for ultra-rig

  July 14, 2009

• DA Carol Chambers: Avoiding the inevitable

  Carol Chambers. As Westword's Alan Prendergast has reported in a series of blogs, Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. has ordered district attorney Carol Chambers to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of Julie Stene, who says she was sexually assaulted after a 2000 high school graduation party by two men, one of whom went on to play football at the University of Colorado, where he came under scrutiny as part of the sex scandal that erupted there two years later. Samour had to

  July 15, 2009

• Weighing Sonia Sotomayor's Latina cred

  July 23, 2009

• Video: Westword writer takes a beating from police nunchaku. Don't tell Sonia Sotomayor!

  The writer tries to stick it to the man. Click "Continue" to see the video.​Writing can be painful sometimes. This is particularly true while putting together a feature article about a little-known weapon used by police departments across the country called an Orcutt Police Nunchaku. Nearly thirty years ago, a Thornton Police officer named Kevin Orcutt became inspired by the flailing martial arts weapon made famous in the U.S. by Bruce Lee. He developed the OPN as a way for police officers to

  August 5, 2009

• Sonia Sotomayor could declare martial law on Kevin Orcutt's nunchaku

  August 6, 2009

• Denverites ready to celebrate Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation

  Sonia Sotomayor, in an image from the White House's website.​Sonia Sotomayor, whose ruling about nunchucks is part of this week's Jared Jacang Maher feature article about Thornton cop Kevin Orcutt's police-oriented nunchaku design, hasn't been officially confirmed as a Supreme Court justice at this writing; Senate president Harry Reid has called for a vote at 1 p.m. mountain time. But there's so little suspense about whether or not she'll be approved that the Colorado Latino Forum and the

  August 6, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 6 edition

  ​Would you like to sniff the cork? Today in Cafe Society: • Grapes and grilling tonight at Strings. • Guess where I'm drinking? • Martini Ranch and Hiccups III dry up. • And the new, New York Times restaurant critic is... • Tonight's shochu dinner at Elway's Cherry Creek could be the blowout food orgy of the year. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Denver Boot: Hot IQs final show at Larimer Lounge. • NPR's All Songs Considered weighs in on the best music of 2009. • Mile Hi-F

  August 6, 2009

• Will Sonia Sotomayor soon be getting a Supreme Court demo from Officer "Numchuck Sticks"?

  Heads up your Honor! ​Despite this week's Westword cover story detailing Sonia Sotomayor's clear judicial bias against "numchuck sticks," the Senate still voted to confirm the wise-Latina-loving nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 6. (Apparently the powerful pro-nunchaku lobby was too busy watching ass-kicking Bruce Lee clips on YouTube to mount serious protest.) So does this now mean Thornton cop Kevin Orcutt could get a chance to demonstrate his version of the martial arts weapo

  August 10, 2009

• From the week of August 20, 2009

  August 20, 2009