Colorado Supreme Court Losses Keep Piling Up

Three times. Three damn times the Supreme Court has had to tell Colorado no, because the people running this state keep treating the Constitution like a speed bump for whatever moral fashion show they are staging this session.

Fox News lays out the pattern plainly enough. In the Kaley Chiles case, the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s 2019 counseling law violated the First Amendment because it punished speech based on viewpoint. Before that, the state got smacked in 303 Creative. Before that, Masterpiece Cakeshop. Different plaintiffs. Same instinct. Colorado government keeps trying to enforce ideological conformity, then acts offended when the justices notice the boot prints.

That is the real story. Not just that the state lost again. It is how these people govern. Polis and the Democrats under the Gold Dome do not ask, “Is this constitutional?” They ask, “Can we get this through, make it stick for a few years, and force somebody else to spend a fortune stopping us?” That is the model. Pass the law. Create confusion. Let the bureaucracy menace people. Dare a citizen to drag the thing through years of litigation while the state uses taxpayer money as a bottomless legal slush fund.

And who gets hit? Not the consultant class. Not the activists who write the talking points. Not the lawmakers who collect applause at donor wine caves for being “on the right side of history.” It is bakers, designers, counselors, families, and anybody else unlucky enough to become the next sacrificial defendant in Colorado’s holy war against disfavored speech. The punishment is not just the final ruling. The punishment is the process. The lawyer bills. The time. The threat. The public smearing. The years you do not get back.

Part of us almost admires the ruthlessness. They know some of this garbage is constitutionally shaky. They do not care. Because most people cannot afford to take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court. So the law stands. The chilling effect works. The message spreads: obey now, maybe win later, if you are rich enough and stubborn enough to survive the grinder.

That is the scam in modern Colorado. They call it compassion, equity, safety, inclusion, whatever the week’s approved incense happens to be. But underneath the scented PR candle, it is still the same old power play: impose first, litigate later, and let ordinary people eat the cost.

Source: Fox News