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Nicolais: State RFRA bill dies a faster, quieter death
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A perennially contentious proposal, this year’s religious freedom restoration bill, HB 17-1013, died a faster, quieter death than in years past. Sent to the state House committee on State, Veterans, and Military Affairs – a Democratic “kill committee” – in January, the bill’s fate was a foregone conclusion. While the political tumult over the bill declined dramatically,…
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Reports: Colorado’s Gorsuch top Trump pick for Supreme Court
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Conservative Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch is the leading contender for President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, which could happen as early as next week, according to media reports. Gorsuch, who sits on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, was included in a list of 21 potential nominees for the Supreme Court released…
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The Hot Sheet — Some highly-speculative, presidential changing of the guard reporting for ya, Leonard goes to jail, Buck still hates D.C., crybaby electors head to court and … MORE!
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VOL. 01 NO. 203 | DECEMBER 12, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – A state representative going to jail during the holidays? For the first time in decades … Oh my! Wasn’t there something about this in the Book of Revelations? Goodness. Good morning, and happy Monday. We guess it’s happy. But it’s…
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Nicolais: GOP draws royal flush, payout might come from Colorado
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Earlier this year, I compared the Republican Supreme Court challenge to playing poker. With President Obama nominating Merrick Garland for the vacant seat left after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP-controlled Senate refused to hold hearings, much less a vote. Republicans were betting on winning back the Oval Office and maintaining control of…
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May: The tide turns
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Trump’s victories pale in comparison with the challenges ahead First and foremost: Nothing is more pivotal to democratic governance then holding free and fair elections that lead to a peaceful transference of power. Over the past week, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all demonstrated that they get that. This is an achievement that…
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Nicolais: Political calendar countdown … to Oct. 7th?
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Tick-tock, tick-tock. The political world is officially measuring the distance to this November’s election in days, now. What once seemed endlessly far, the race to Nov. 8 is in the homestretch. But Oct. 7 is even closer. If the date doesn’t make anything jump immediately to mind, that’s all right. It probably doesn’t for most…
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Biden, Supreme Court nominee on Hill to pressure GOP
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Judge Merrick Garland found himself back on Capitol Hill on Thursday in a familiar place – meeting with a Democratic senator who used the visit to complain about Republicans’ inaction on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. said he met with Garland to “see…
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Bennet will have a fight, but how much of one is TBD
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There is a reason so many Republican candidates are in the race to take a shot at unseating Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet … besides the fact the GOP’s stronger top-tier bench of candidates all decided not to run. Colorado’s open Senate seat is one of nine seats nationwide that has been identified as competitive,…
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Nicolais: Garland nixed before ever nominated
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Harvard valedictorian. Brilliant. Chief Judge of the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. Prosecutor in charge after the Oklahoma City bombing. A “judge’s judge.” All things that describe President Obama’s pick to fill the vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. And then there are a couple of things that describe what he…
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Bennet, Gardner split on Garland nomination to Supreme Court
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Colorado’s two U.S. senators had opposite reactions to President Barack Obama’s nomination Wednesday of Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Republican Cory Gardner reiterating his position that the Senate should refuse to take up an Obama pick and Democrat Michael Bennet calling on the Senate to “do its job” and consider the…
