Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said he will vote not to retain three state Supreme Court justices, according to the conservative blog The Business Word.

Suthers’ statement aligns him with the conservative action group Clear the Bench Colorado, an organization dedicated to ousting the four justices up for re-election in November. Its website describes our Supreme Court as “the most partisan in the nation” and the TABOR amendment is the second resource listed on its references page.

Suthers must have realized this isn’t exactly the sort of movement an Attorney General should be associated with. “I should not have gotten into any of that,” he told the The Denver Post. “I regret the conversation.”

But Clear the Bench isn’t letting him off that easily. “When the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the state says he thinks the highest justices in our state are not worthy of continuing in office, that’s big news,” Matthew Arnold, director of Clear the Bench Colorado, told the Post.

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