Equal Justice Foundation, Inc.

10/07/2026

On Friday, October 2nd the EJF posted its 2026 review of Colorado judges and it is available athttp://ejfi.org/News/Courts-October_2_2026.pdf
Since then we have received the following comments from an anonymous member of the 20th Judicial Review Commission:
"EJF does not really detail how they evaluate judges, but they do seem to use attorney surveys. They do not mention the sample size or how they chose the attorneys. The Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation sends out surveys to all bar members in the district, but only a small sampling return them. Most of them are afraid of being recognized by the judge which may lead to a bias in the courtroom. Some of the attorneys that respond will do so because they had an issue with the judge so their impartiality is suspect. We take these evaluations with a grain of salt, but they are only one component we use for our evaluations. We interview the Chief Justice, District Attorney, head of the court appointed attorneys, and the head of the Boulder Bar Association along with holding a public hearing where anyone can come to discuss their feelings. Finally we interview the judge themselves for 30 minutes and write up a report for them afterwards for response. We have a thoughtful process behind the one or two paragraphs people read.
In the ELF's table, we don't know how many attorneys responded or what type of attorney they are so their results are suspect from a pure statistical point-of-view. Kotlarczyk and Larson are good, fair, middle-of-the-road judges that should be retained. Salomone is now the Chief Justice of this district. She is pretty new to the bench, but she is a very hard worker and has plugged some of the holes that existed in the system for defendants having mental health and substance abuse issues that are repeat offenders which occupy most of the docket. Nancy does lean more liberal but she is a fair and practical judge. Nancy is a definite retain. I will disclose that I have used Nancy as an attorney in the past, and found her to be a very competent attorney. Malkinson is getting better each time we meet with him. I have spent hours in his courtroom and found him to be a competent jurist worth retaining. Haenselman is pretty new to the bench and has some growing and learning to do. She is open to criticism and improving her skills on the bench. She is definitely putting in the effort to be a good judge.
The ones that I personally would like to see replaced are not up for retention this time.
A word of caution. If you vote these judges out, they will be most likely replaced with an even more lenient and liberal judge. We are in Boulder after all. I know the people that sit on the judge selection committee and they lean heavily towards the defendant. They want liberal judges. Be careful for what you ask for because you just may get it."
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To which Dr. Corry replied for the EJF:
There is no perfect way to evaluate judges and the biases and probable errors you note have validity. But no voter is going to be able to evaluate a judge unless they have had to appear before them. And then their evaluation is going to be strongly biased by whether they win or lose. Conversely, an attorney often appears multiple times before a judge, particularly if they are prosecutors or public defenders, and thus likely to have more experience with a judge.
The individual judicial commissions usually tabulate how many attorneys responded but, in the interest of simplicity, that information has not been included in our compilation. You may be familiar with the KISS principle?
Note that our evaluation includes the judicial commission recommendations as well. However, they are clearly biased and seldom recommend a judge not be retained. I would note that in any professional group it is probable that roughly 10% of the individuals in that group are incompetent, corrupt, disabled, biased, or otherwise unfit for the position they hold. Unfortunately, the judicial review commissions only find roughly 1% of the state judges being reviewed as unfit for the office. One doesn’t spend much time around the Colorado courts before realizing that is a gross underestimate of judicial incompetence. Being a good judge is a tough job and only a select few can do it; and becoming a judge is too often based on political favoritism rather than technical ability and education.
Note that in our evaluation we have rated 33 judges as outstanding while our simplistic method found 27 should not be retained on the bench. Granted some of the latter just need more experience and education, but society pays a very high price for their mistakes and ignorance.
Thus, the EJF evaluation, for all its faults and shortcomings, is the simplest and easiest to understand presentation of judicial performance that we have been able to devise. Our hope is that it helps lead to a better judiciary!
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10/02/2026

EJF newsletter - 2026 review of Colorado judges
Purpose
Basic to the rule of law is the selection of impartial, competent, well-educated, and wise judges. Conversely, there must be an effective, and easy to understand way of removing those who don't make the cut. Toward that goal, the Equal Justice Foundation (EJF) review of Colorado judges standing for retention in 2026 is attached.
To help w**d out bad judges, all Colorado state judges must stand for retention by the voters at fixed intervals in even years. Reports on each judge are prepared by judicial performance commissions in each of the 23 judicial districts. But, being political, these commissions usually whitewash the judges.
In 2026 there are 137 eligible judges in Colorado but only 123 are actually standing for retention. The 14 judges who chose not to stand for retention will step down or retire on January 5, 2027. Of the 123 judges reviewed by the judicial performance commissions three were judged not to have met their standards, and thus should be voted out.
The EJF has long been independently tracking judicial performance and postulates that the number of bad judges is considerably more than three. Inasmuch as the judicial performance commissions seek input from the attorneys who know the judges, in 2012 we began compiling our own tabulation of good and bad judges based solely on the attorney votes reported to the separate commissions; in essence a jury of the judge's peers. That provides a simple to understand and brief statement of the judge's performance, and what the attorneys who know the judge best think of them.
By our measure (see attachment), 27 of the 123 judges standing for retention in 2026 should not be retained and voted off the bench. The performance of 31 more is found to be marginal at best. Conversely, attorneys rated 33 judges as outstanding.
If you live in another state perhaps our method may be of some use in establishing a similar method for evaluating judges.

09/26/2026

The evolution of society:
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09/14/2026

These words are written in defense of freedom
Our objective is to fix the problem, not the blame
We do not condone violence but argue that history shows it is more commonly and broadly propagated by denying civil liberties than controlled.
Arrests without a warrant, forcing citizens from their homes and children with nothing more than the clothes on their back without even the pretense of due process, searches without a warrant, seizures of their property without redress, mandatory arrests often based on nothing more than hearsay, assuming the accused is guilty until proven innocent, mere allegations that suffice as proof, denial of the right to confront the accuser and obtain witnesses in one's defense, denied the assistance of counsel, punishment and imprisonment that occurs before a trial or without one, public censure for crimes men have not committed, indentured servitude and often outright slavery, and more, are acts of a police state and the policies of tyrants.
One of the most difficult concepts for people to accept is the fact that “domestic violence” rarely involves criminal intimate partner violence. What it does involve under current definitions are financial problems, emails, telephone messages, dirty looks, swearing, loud arguments, neighbors calling the cops, jealousy, revenge, vengeance, infidelity, paternity fraud, custody battles, false allegations, lunachics, mental problems, self-inflicted injuries, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and maybe some pushing and shoving. Of course all of these problems are exacerbated if one or both are involved with substance abuse, alcohol or drugs (both legal and illegal).
Charges of domestic violence or abuse, all too often combined with allegations of child physical and s*xual abuse, have become the weapon of choice for women in divorce and custody battles. Despite the demonstrable fact that over 75% of these charges are lies, women are encouraged by attorneys and rewarded with the house and kids for making such statements, and face no penalty for their false accusations.
The abuse of restraining orders in domestic violence cases far exceeds 50% of all such orders issued and there is credible evidence that such orders actually increase the violence in many cases. 3
There is no greater shock than to find that even with both law and facts in your favor, your constitutional rights are worthless because you can't get the courts or government to enforce them. Throughout history such actions by a State have been the cause of violence, not the cure.
Those who take the time to read these pages will note that current laws to control “domestic” or “intimate partner” violence deny the accused virtually every liberty spelled out by the Bill of Rights while doing very little to define or solve the problem.
Do such draconian measures work?
No!
In examining the problems of families and intimate partner violence some simple facts emerge from study after study:
• The safest place for a child is with their biological father; conversely, the most dangerous place for a child is in the home of a single mother.
• The safest place for a woman is in her home married to the biological father of her children.
• Men and women are equally violent in domestic relationships with 25-30% of intimate partner violence being exclusively female on male, 50% mutual combat (it usually takes two to tangle), and the remaining 20-25% exclusively male on female violence making it the least of the problem.
• In younger couples women are two to three times as violent as their male partners.
• Le***an relationships are the most violent of all intimate relationships.
• On average, there are as many mentally-disturbed women as men.
• While biology requires s*x to create a child, civilization requires marriage and families to raise the child.
• Under current laws and practices a man has to be functionally insane to marry and a drooling idiot to sire a child, the antithesis of civilized necessity.
• The well-intentioned efforts of many to reduce family violence has been perverted by redfems (used here as a synonym for neo-Marxist radical feminists) to virtually eliminate families. As of 2012 well over 40% of children are born to single mothers.
• Finally, Erin Pizzey, who pioneered the shelter for battered women movement in 1971, states that “Any country that has tried to create a political solution to human problems has ended up with concentration camps and gulags.”

Have charges of domestic violence or abuse been made against you, or someone you know or love? Whether you are a man or woman information essential to the survival of you and your children is presented here.

08/19/2026

For example, studies have found that children from single-mother households are 5 times more likely to commit su***de than children from both unbroken households and single-father households, 9 times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit r**e, 20 times more likely to end up in prison and 32 times more likely to run away from home. The list does not stop there, single-mother households also account for 70% of all teen pregnancies, 70% of all child murders, and they account for the majority of filicide cases, which means yes, a child living in a single-mother household is the most likely to be murdered by their parent. Most at this point will probably think that the stepfather is the main killer and reason; however, studies have found this to be false and that stepparents are no more likely to kill children than their biological counterparts.

07/28/2026

In Dubious Battle
What we are facing in mid-2026

Labor unrest - Unchecked immigration has prevented young Americans from taking the beginner jobs so essential to developing a mature work force.

War - An unwinnable, undeclared war promoted by the egomania of a U.S. President is creating a world wide depression.

Nuclear Armageddeon - Wars against Iran and Ukraine continue to threaten the use of nuclear weapons by either Russia or Israel.

Famine - Mike Adams* predicts that the lack of fertilizer and energy caused by the war against Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will result in widespread famine in parts of the world.

Wealth - Inflation, directly tied to policies of the Federal Reserve, have resulted in devaluation of U.S. currency to where a dollar is worth only a few pennies compared to its 1916 value. Gold has gone from $16/oz to over $4,000/oz. So U.S. currency is basically worthless and the national debt is unsustainable. National bankruptcy appears inevitable.

Radical feminism - Women claiming to be abused for any and all sleights have resulted in draconian laws that make it virtually impossible for a man to defend himself.

Marriage and families - Unsubstantiated claims under laws against domestic violence, combined with no default divorce have left only men who are functionally insane who will marry, and only a drooling idiot sires a child.

Population - Given that at least half of marriages now end in divorce even among those who do marry, and even including single mothers, the birth rate has fallen to a disastrous 1.6 births per female where at least 2.1 births per woman is required simply to maintain the current population.

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