Opinion | 'Three years of narratives about misbehavior, cover-ups, administrative incompetence, mistakes, inappropriate lobbying, false candor, and lack of transparency have compelled me to alter my views of some of the legal profession’s leaders.'
Steven Vasconcellos, Colorado’s state court administrator, front left, and Judge Ted Tow of the Colorado Court of Appeals, front right, are in the first meeting of the Legislative Interim Committee on Judicial Discipline, which is tasked with reforming the state’s discipline system for judges in the wake of the judicial scandal, at Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.
All the attorney members of the Judicial Discipline Commission are volunteers who do this work out of a commitment to the integrity and improvement of the legal system, to ensure that only the most upright judges serve the people of Colorado and that allegations of misconduct are investigated independently. They are all esteemed lawyers with impeccable credentials and long community service records. We should seek and welcome, not discourage, their testimony.
But after the last few years in the legislature, however, where I served as chairperson of the House and then Senate Judiciary Committees and having read reports and heard testimony about continuing scandals and allegations of misconduct at the highest levels in the Judicial Branch, my perspective and idealism have been tempered.
Their opposition took the form of a pattern and practice of tactics to defeat bills, silence their critics and neutralize opposition. One victim of sexual harassment by a judge would only testify via an anonymous letter to the committee; she described the negative treatment she received from the OARC.
But, as in any group, there are some judges who deviate from expected standards of professional conduct. Judges are only human. Thus, we need a credible process to ensure errant judges are identified and then corrected or disqualified. That is the role of the Commission on Judicial Discipline, working in conjunction with the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel.
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