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Federal judge speaks about ‘concerning trends’ of threats against judges, weighs in on judicial ethics
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Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty spoke about a wide range of topics to a Lakewood audience on Tuesday, from judicial ethics and threats against judges to the role of religion in the courtroom. “In my world, you don’t even want the appearance of impropriety. You want to be above reproach. And so, we…
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DeSantis again tops Trump in 2024 straw poll at Colorado conservative summit
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran ahead of former President Donald Trump for the second year running in a 2024 presidential election straw poll conducted at the Western Conservative Summit in Aurora, summit organizers said late Saturday. Sponsored by Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute and billed as the largest gathering of conservatives in the western United…
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House panel kills trio of GOP-sponsored anti-abortion bills
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Three anti-abortion bills, sponsored by conservatives in the House Republican caucus, all met the same fate in hearings that started Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the early morning hours of Thursday. All three failed on party-line votes. Two of the bills are perennial attempts by the more conservative wing of the GOP caucus to either…
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Colorado’s Jeff Hunt joins Turning Point USA council
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Jeff Hunt, the director of the conservative Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, is taking a seat on the advisory council for Turning Point USA, the high-profile outfit that courts college students on the merits of conservatism. The organization, however, also courts controversy. Last week the Arizona Republic noted it has “faced repeated claims of…
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Colorado politicos react to Trump’s pick of Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
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k.vineys President Trump’s selection of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court brought swift yet predictable reactions from Colorado politicos Monday night. Kavanaugh would succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered a moderate swing vote on the high court. The nominee’s rulings in the lower courts suggest a move to the right for the Supreme Court.…
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Trump nominates new U.S. attorney for Colorado
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President Donald Trump has nominated Jason Dunn to serve as Colorado’s U.S. attorney in a long-anticipated move, the White House announced Wednesday. Dunn is a former deputy state attorney general and assistant solicitor general under former Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (now Colorado Springs’ mayor) and a shareholder at the powerful Denver law firm Brownstein…
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Sessions’ move to protect churches gets James Dobson’s applause
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in Denver last week talking about religious liberty. Wednesday he made a move applauded by two top religious leaders in Colorado. Dr. James Dobson and Dr. Tim Clinton issued a statement Wednesday evening praising Sessions for the Place to Worship Initiative to protect religious buildings from potentially discriminatory zoning…
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11th hour compromise over Colo. civil rights panel in legislature
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A bill reauthorizing Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission – the subject of much contention during the 2018 Colorado legislative session – was sent on its way to the governor’s desk just before the final gavel fell Wednesday night. As a midnight deadline approached, a legislative conference committee worked out…
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Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission has a serious problem — but the House won’t fix it
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Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage across America, slammed the Colorado Civil Rights Commission as “neither tolerant nor respectful.” The Commission’s unfairness landed it in the U.S. Supreme Court and on the front pages of newspapers across the country last year. It is clear that the Justices…
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Pot foe Centennial Institute names marijuana and addiction fellow
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The conservative Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood is a champion of the anti-marijuana effort, and now it has a fellow to share insights on pot and addiction. The think tank called Peter Droege “a champion of addiction recovery and prevention” and “a leading voice against marijuana legalization nationwide.” “I am honored to…
