COPO’S BEST OF THE WEEK | Hick fires back; Titone talks; will Dems overreach?
Here’s our recap of our best stories of the week from the Colorado Politics staff.
> Hickenlooper fires back on ethics complaint; calls it ‘frivolous’
> Meet Brianna Titone, Colorado’s first transgender lawmaker
> INSIGHTS | The road ahead for GOP depends on Democrats
> Hickenlooper asks state Supreme Court to weigh in on TABOR, Gallagher conflicts
> TRAIL MIX | Did Jeffco’s purple mountains just turn blue?
> ENDORSEMENT WATCH | How well did Trump, Obama do on Colorado candidates?
> Q&A with Joshua Hosler | GOP must reach people at the ‘heart level’
> Perlmutter among 16 Dems in US House vowing to oppose Pelosi as speaker
> A rare move: Freshman state senator picked for legislature’s Joint Budget Committee
> Should E-470 be a hazmat route? Aurora not so sure
> Colorado lawmakers think they can still find a school finance fix
> Politicos tell CoPo what they’re thankful for
> NBC: Colorado no longer a swing state
> WATCH: Congressman-elect Neguse on Pelosi: ‘ I intend to support her’ as speaker
> Regulation of Colorado uranium mining awaits US Supreme Court decision
> As sex-transmitted disease rates soar in Colo. and elsewhere, states beg for help
> DeGette drops out of race for majority whip
> Coloradans lead Governing’s list of top public officials
> Polis, other new governors attend ‘boot camp’ in Colorado Springs
Colorado’s chief federal judge breaks with colleagues on issue of mandatory immigration detention
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico broke with his peers on Colorado’s U.S. District Court last week in siding with the government’s argument about the broad scope of its immigration detention authority. In an April 15 order finding that a man...
Colorado panel rejects 2 of 3 Polis appointees to wildlife body
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
A contentious hearing Wednesday saw two out of three of Gov. Jared Polis’ picks for the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission rejected by a panel of legislators. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee approved, on a 7-0 vote, the...
Colorado Democratic bill would allow lawsuits against federal officials, drawing warnings from local critics
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
Colorado Democrats are considering a bill that would let people sue federal, state, and local officials for alleged constitutional violations — a change supporters say would check government power, while critics warn it could trigger a surge of lawsuits against...
10th Circuit agrees Frontier must pay TSA for security fees
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Frontier Airlines must pay nearly $5.4 million to the Transportation Security Administration after it improperly held onto security-related fees paid by certain customers, the federal appeals court in Denver ruled on Monday. The TSA argued that federal law and regulations...
Trump calls Virginia redistricting election ‘RIGGED,’ hopes courts reverse maps
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 6 hours ago
President Donald Trump denounced the redistricting election in Virginia as “RIGGED,” and voiced his hope that the courts would strike the new congressional map down. In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned the legitimacy of the Tuesday voting results,...
Colorado House ethics panel reviews complaint alleging misuse of Democratic caucus money
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 hour ago
Colorado’s House Ethics Committee has begun reviewing a complaint accusing Rep. Mandy Lindsay of improperly handling Democratic Caucus money, setting in motion a weekslong inquiry into her role and responsibilities as caucus co‑chair. The complaint was filed in January by...
Colorado GOP asks judge to bar state from sending Republican primary ballots to unaffiliated voters
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The Colorado Republican Party on Monday asked a federal judge to issue an emergency injunction to prevent the state’s unaffiliated voters from being able to cast ballots in the GOP’s upcoming primary election. Lawyers for the party argue in a...
Appeals court upholds convictions despite juror’s dishonesty about criminal history
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Colorado’s second-highest court declined to order a new trial last week for a Boulder County defendant, despite a juror’s concealment of his own prior conviction until after the verdict. A jury found Kasey James Arrington guilty of kidnapping and sex-related...
Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants
Alanna Durkin Richer
alanna.durkin.richer@associatedpress.com
Updated 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd...
Drug-induced abortions open a can of worms on campus | PODIUM
Colorado Politics
colorado-politics@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
By Tom Perille Why mandate drug-induced abortion access at Colorado’s colleges and universities? At a time of unprecedented Colorado state budget challenges, you would think state legislators would be laser focused on creating and funding those programs where there is...