civil rights

General Assembly adding bills more than subtracting in waning weeks

Apr 18, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Wednesday marks the start of the last three weeks of Colorado’s 2018 General Assembly session. As of a week ago, the General Assembly still had 295 bills – out of a total of 615 – awaiting final action. You’d think a week later that number would be lower. You’d be wrong. As of Wednesday morning, the…
Colorado House Republicans offer amendments to remake civil rights commission

Feb 20, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted 10-1 to draft a bill to extend the Colorado Division of Civil Rights and the civil rights commission for nine more years. House Republicans offered six amendments that attempted to make sweeping changes to the commission, without success. All of the Republican amendments failed on a 4-7 party-line vote. The…
Colorado Democrats in Congress join amicus brief in Masterpiece Cakeshop case

Nov 4, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Democrats among Colorado’s congressional delegation joined an amicus brief this week filed in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case Dec. 5 to decide whether Lakewood-based Masterpiece Cakeshop violated the civil rights of a same-sex couple by refusing to make…
Colorado Justice Allison Eid confirmed to replace Neil Gorsuch on federal appeals court

Nov 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Senate voted 56-41 on Thursday to confirm Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, filling the vacancy created by Justice Neil Gorsuch’s elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court, with both Colorado senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, voting in favor of her confirmation. Eid’s nod means that…
One Colorado to honor Pat Steadman, Jean Dubofsky, Rathod Mohamedbhai and Kaiser

Jul 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Twenty-one years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, One Colorado Education Fund is honoring two attorneys who played key roles in the case – former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky and former state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver – at the LGBT-rights organization’s annual Ally Awards fundraising event. Dubofsky, the first woman…
This week in #copolitics is getting very Joe Salazar

Mar 16, 2017

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John Tomasic

It has already been a Joe Salazar week in Colorado, and it’s not over yet. The firebrand Democratic House representative from Thornton declared his candidacy for attorney general on Friday, saying he would be the people’s lawyer and touting his civil rights background as ideal in the Trump-era when, he said, civil rights and the…
State Rep. Salazar to run for attorney general, aims to be ‘the people’s lawyer’

Mar 10, 2017

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John Tomasic

Colorado House firebrand Joe Salazar, a Democratic representative from Thornton, announced Friday he is running for state attorney general motivated by the desire to act as “the people’s lawyer” in a national political climate he views as threatening to democratic values and processes and to civil rights. “People get upset that I challenge Democratic leaders…
US Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s Exoneration Act

Jan 19, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case last week of a Colorado woman who wants to reimbursed for the fines she paid before her felony convictions were overturned. If she wins when the Court’s decision is announced in the next couple of months, the ruling would invalidate a state law that requires exonerated convicts to…
The Hot Sheet – Judge calls it a ‘political stunt,’ Gov. Elway, education or advocating, CO lawyers unite against Trump, elections ain’t funny & MORE!

Dec 13, 2016

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Colorado Politics

VOL. 01 NO. 204 | DECEMBER 13, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Good Tuesday to you … And for those keeping tabs: 11 days until Christmas, 18 days until New Years and 37 days until the inauguration of Donald Trump. Or as detractors call it, the end of civilization as we know it.…
Colorado Democrats criticize Trump adviser appointments

Dec 5, 2016

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Tom Ramstack

Colorado’s Democratic Party delegation to Congress is joining critics of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his top advisers and Cabinet members. “So far, the news and rumors have been disquieting – especially for people across the country who have been engaged in promoting civil rights, a cleaner environment, sustainable energy and better health care,” Rep. Diana…