Today is April 10, 2024, and here’s what you need to know:

Republican state Rep. Richard Holtorf, one of the GOP candidates running for the congressional seat formerly held by Republican Ken Buck, on Tuesday called on Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams to resign after the state party formally endorsed U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in the primary and attacked another Republican seeking the nomination.

In a statement to Colorado Politics, Holtorf accused Williams of hijacking the state party to support his own political ambition by pushing a series of changes to party rules that allow the party to endorse candidates who qualify for the primary at party assemblies, instead of petitioning onto the ballot.

“Dave Williams should resign so a fair and impartial Republican primary campaign can take place,” Holtorf said. “The State Central Committee should revoke all individual candidate endorsements in all contested races to return the Republican process to a fair and transparent election cycle.”

Referring to Williams, the Akron lawmaker added: “His draconian leadership is now setting a very dangerous precedent for the Colorado Republican party to follow. No one person should be able to use undue influence or indirectly force a preferred slate of candidates onto the primary ballot using his position as the State Party Chair. Hundreds of thousands of Republicans may become alienated in the process.”

Republicans on Tuesday accused Colorado’s top election official of “destroying” the integrity of her office during a rare impeachment hearing that rehashed many of the arguments for or against disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.

Griswold, a Democrat, called it a “sham inquiry.” 

Republicans, who pushed for the impeachment resolution, sought to put Secretary of State Jena Griswold on the defensive, accusing the Democrat of using her authority to push a partisan agenda by, among other things, publicly weighing in on the disqualification case against Trump when, they said, she should have taken a neutral position precisely because of her position.

Democrats, in turn, accused the Republicans of bringing forth a case with no basis in facts, maintaining that Griswold didn’t break any law and, in fact, followed court orders. 

The Colorado Democratic Party on Friday demanded that a new group that describes “gender-affirming care” as “dangerous and disturbing” to cease using the word “Democrats” in its name.

The chair of the Democratic Party of Denver also made a similar demand.

“The Kremlin would be proud,” the Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender replied. The group said it has four chapters in Colorado. 

The latest salvo in America’s cultural wars pits the group – which says its members are Democrats, recently former party members or “newly politically homeless former Dems, who still hold onto our liberal values but believe that our party has veered way off track – and the Democratic establishment in Colorado.

The federal government has asked a judge to appoint an independent property manager to bring a trio of Gunnison landlords into compliance with a non-discrimination consent decree they have largely ignored for over four years.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Gordon P. Gallagher called the motion “relatively straightforward” and set a deadline of two weeks for David Welch, John Welch and Ruth Welch to respond.

“The United States believes at this point, there has been a pattern of communicativeness followed by periods of silence,” said Zeyen J. Wu, an attorney representing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “We feel that further action is necessary to obtain compliance.”

Wu added that the appointment of a property manager would hopefully be “more effective” than holding the Welches in contempt of court for their actions in the unusual case.

Members of the state Supreme Court seemed hesitant on Tuesday to block a recent law school graduate with a long history of political activism in Colorado from practicing law, despite findings that he obstructed attorney regulators from learning about child neglect and domestic violence allegations.

Matthew Tobin Arnold was in his mid-fifties when he graduated from law school in 2022. Previously, Arnold ran as a Republican for University of Colorado regent, advocated against Supreme Court justices’ retention and filed dozens of campaign finance complaints. Arnold believed his past activism played a role in the decision last year to reject his admission to the practice of law in Colorado.

Attorney regulators told a different story: Arnold failed to disclose on his bar application that he was recently involved in a child neglect case, formally known as a dependency and neglect matter. He also did not reveal his ex-spouse’s domestic violence allegations. When an investigator prodded him for information, Arnold dragged his feet and only shared select documents from the case.

Notwithstanding Arnold’s career and achievements, a hearing board concluded Arnold’s lack of “honesty and candor” was problematic and denied him admission to practice.