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Article: CONSTITUTIONAL, BUT UNFAIR THE ISSUE: JUDGE REJECTS JOAN JOHNSON APPEAL OUR VIEW: HE WAS RIGHT, BUT LAW STILL NEEDS CHANGING.(Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- July 6, 1998
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As we noted last week, state Sen. Joan Johnson's case indicates that Colorado's petition laws need an overhaul.
Yet we respect Denver District Judge John W. Coughlin's decision Wednesday rejecting her constitutional challenges to those laws - and the Colorado Supreme Court's refusal Thursday to take her appeal. Just because laws aren't perfect doesn't mean they're unconstitutional, and the courts were properly loath to throw out the legislature's work.
Johnson, of course, was trying to make the Democratic primary ballot as a candidate for secretary of state. But Republican Vikki Buckley, whose job she seeks, declared - moments before she was required to ...