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Colorado U.S. Attorney Resigns

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 12:55:36 PM EST
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Colorado U.S. Attorney Troy Eid announced yesterday he will resign, effective Jan. 19. He's going to run for state attorney general. The current attorney general, John Suthers, is expected to challenge newly appointed Sen. Michael Bennet, the replacement for Ken Salazar, in 2010.

Eid's wife, Allison Eid, currently serves on the Colorado Supreme Court. If Eid wins the attorney general election, he said she will resign from the bench.

Eid will return to private practice with his former law firm, Greenberg Traurig (Jack Abramoff's old firm.)

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    Colorado U.S. Attorney Resigns | 8 comments (8 topical)

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    What did you think of him and his prosecutors? (none / 0) (#1)
    by magster on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 01:16:50 PM EST
    I am assuming as a Fed. Public Defender you have some opinions.  

    All I know about him is he minimized the alleged Obama assassination plot at the convention, while hyping the "foot powder" letter from the inmate in Arapahoe County.

    I've never been a (none / 0) (#8)
    by Jeralyn on Fri Jan 09, 2009 at 12:41:09 AM EST
    federal public defender, I'm in private practice. But yes, this is the court that almost all of my cases are in. And, because of that, I'm going to keep my opinions to myself!

     

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    Their business, not mine. But (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 01:28:34 PM EST
    couldn't he aspire to something that wouldn't require his wife to resign from the Colorado Supreme Court?

    had the same thought (none / 0) (#3)
    by Lil on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 01:30:46 PM EST


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    Ditto here. (none / 0) (#4)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 02:13:04 PM EST
    Then again, it's unseemly that a given state's attorney general would have a spouse on that state's supreme court. It's a clear conflict of interest for the family.

    I was working in the Hawaii State Senate in 1992 when the governor sought to nominate the 32-year-old wife of his own attorney general to the State Supreme Court.

    Note: Hawaii's attorneys general are appointed by the governor, and not elected. The governor and lieutenant governor are the only state officials elected on a statewide basis.

    Most senators disagreed immediately and vehemently, citing similar arguments of conflict and nepotism, not to mention the nominee's woeful lack of real-world experience.  However, the governor refused to withdraw her name from consideration, and Hawaii statutes provide for the automatic approval of any cabinet or judicial nominee not acted upon by the Senate within 30 days of nomination.

    When the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee (where her nomination was referred for consideration) literally disappeared from the Capitol in the last week of the aforementioned 30-day period, state senators called themselves into special session, yanked the nomination from that committee and dramatically and overwhelmingly deep-sixed the nominee's professional aspirations on the Senate floor. Then, in a very rare public rebuke for a state governor, they proceeded to further reprimand by Senate resolution all parties involved in the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and promotion of the woman's ill-considered candidacy.

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    Clark (none / 0) (#5)
    by rea on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 03:25:48 PM EST
    it's unseemly that a given state's attorney general would have a spouse on that state's supreme court.

    The precedent is Justice Tom Clark, who resigned from the US Supreme Court so that his son Ramsey could be appointed US Attorney General . . .

    wow (none / 0) (#6)
    by txpolitico67 on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 03:57:49 PM EST
    what a great father.  sacrifice his job for his son's future.

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    Good. (none / 0) (#7)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Thu Jan 08, 2009 at 08:26:18 PM EST
    Hope he gets his hat handed to him in the election.  And they both fade into oblivion.  

    /freakin' wing-nuts.

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