Today is Jan. 22, 2024, and here’s what you need to know:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary, and endorsed his rival, Donald Trump.

The decision leaves Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as the last major candidates remaining in the race ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. This is the scenario Trump’s foes within the GOP have long sought, raising the stakes for this week’s contest as their last chance to stop the former president who has so far dominated the race.

But as some Trump critics cheered, DeSantis nodded toward Trump’s primary dominance – and attacked Haley – in an exit video he posted on social media.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has hired former state Rep. Justin Everett as its Colorado state director, the Colorado Republican Party announced Friday,

The move comes less than a month before mail ballots are set to go out for Colorado’s March 5 presidential primary, where Trump is set to face three other Republicans in a vote to determine how the state GOP will apportion delegates to the Republican National Convention.

On Sunday, the state Republican central committee formally endorsed Trump in an unprecedented break from the party’s longstanding practice of staying neutral in primaries.

After representing a Jefferson County house district for three terms, from 2013-2019, Everett lost a primary for state treasurer in 2018 and failed to unseat the Republican incumbent in a 2020 bid to win back his old seat.

Christopher Gregory, the executive director of Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline, was removed Friday following a tumultuous tenure in which the commission and the Colorado Supreme Court squared off over issues of reform.

In a statement provided Friday to The Denver Gazette, the commission would only say Gregory is “on leave and is unavailable to engage in Commission on Judicial Discipline business.” The commission’s special counsel, Jeff Walsh, is serving as interim director.

Gregory could not be immediately reached for comment.

However, others familiar with the matter who would only speak anonymously because they were not authorized to speak publicly confirmed Gregory’s two-year tenure on the job probably is over. They would not provide a specific reason for his removal.

The legislature has passed a resolution designating Jan. 22 as “Roe v. Wade Anniversary Day” in Colorado.

On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized abortion as a legal right, a decision overturned in the 2022 case Dobbs vs. Jackson.

The Colorado resolution, sponsored by Democrats from both the House and the Senate, states that the Dobbs decision “resulted in significant physical and mental trauma as well as significant financial burden on people no longer able to access abortion care where they live and who must seek care elsewhere.”

The resolution passed 21-13 in the Senate and 41-14 in the House.

Colorado’s policymakers enshrined abortion as a fundamental right under the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which Gov. Jared Polis signed in 2022. Among the most permissive in the country, the law affirmed in state law the right to choose an abortion or carry a pregnancy to term. Fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses do not have independent rights under the law, and it prohibits state and local public entities from denying or restricting a person’s right to use or refuse contraception, or to either continue a pregnancy or have an abortion.

Columnist Eric Sondermann explores a Biden-Cheney “unity ticket.” 

If Biden is unwilling to step aside, and if Democrats don’t see a consensus alternative (no, not you, Kamala Harris), then overhaul the ticket. Do something bold, shocking and unprecedented.

Hold your gasps and envision a bipartisan, unity ticket of Joe Biden and Liz Cheney.

Angela Lieurance thought it was pretty cool last year when approximately 125 women turned out for the inaugural Cowgirls & Cocktails, a fundraiser that she put together for the National Western Stock Show’s $150 million Honoring the Legacy Campaign.

This year, she was blown away by the response.

On Jan. 11, 340 women gathered at the National Western Club to enjoy cocktails, nibbles and networking before adjourning to the Denver Coliseum for the evening’s pro-rodeo performance.