Finally, the Colorado Supreme Court makes appointments to a number of boards and commissions, which often has the effect of providing a tie breaking member in situations where the other appointees are equally divided on partisan lines.

[10] That new building, dubbed the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, opened in early 2013.

The underside of the building featured a 150-foot mural designed by Colorado artist Angelo di Benedetto.

It depicted several notable figures, including Hammurabi, Moses and Martin Luther King Jr.

Directly beneath the mural was a large window embedded into the ground that looked down into the underground law library.

The entrance to the courtroom consisted of two large brass colored metallic doors with a textured design on them.

The courtroom was dimly lit with two stained glass windows depicting previous Supreme Court Justices.

The podium was a circular column that resembled a container of lipstick that, unlike the rest of the courtroom, was well lit.

[14] The new Justice Center is named for former Colorado Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr, who served from 1939 to 1943 and was noted for his opposition to Japanese American internment during World War II.

[18] In January 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court made a ruling to retroactively recognize common-law same-sex marriage.

[31] On December 19, 2023, in a 4–3 decision , the Colorado Supreme Court declared former president Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause and removed him from the state's presidential primary ballot (which was eventually overturned by a 9-0 decision by the US Supreme Court).

A Colorado district court had previously ruled that the January 6 Capitol attack was an "insurrection" within the meaning of Section 3, and that Trump did "engage" in insurrection by inciting the attack (outside of the protections of the First Amendment), but that Section 3 did not apply to Trump because the President of the United States is not an Officer of the United States and thus Trump had not "previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States," as required by Section 3.

[33][34] After Supreme Court justices received significant violent threats from angry Trump supporters,[35] the FBI was brought in to investigate.