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Judge handling Denver schools’ challenge to ICE policy changes course, sets hearing
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The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools’ challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy for immigration enforcement announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district’s request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position just one week ago. The DPS lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem seeks…
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Republicans are trying to impeach a top Biden official — could it backfire?
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Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pushed forward two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas early Wednesday morning, setting up a full House vote on the matter. The GOP has called for Mayorkas’s impeachment for months, alleging he has neglected his duty to secure the southern border, but impeaching the head…
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Federal judge agrees colleague need not recuse in case due to prior employment
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A federal judge agreed last week that her colleague, a new appointee to Colorado’s U.S. District Court after a career representing the federal government, does not need to recuse from a recent civil case brought against the government. U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Prose joined the federal trial court earlier this year, appointed by the life-tenured…
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Rising political star Amber McReynolds leaving Denver elections post
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A potential candidate being sized up by insiders to run for Denver city clerk next year, then possibly higher office has her own plans. Amber McReynolds, Denver’s ubiquitous director of elections, is leaving Aug. 18 to become executive director of the National Vote at Home Institute and Coalition. McReynolds has worked in the Denver city…
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Out West Roundup: Harassment allegations pit lobbyist against New Mexico lawmaker
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New Mexico Lobbyist alleges sexual harassment by state lawmaker SANTA FE – An animal rights advocate and former political lobbyist went public with sexual harassment allegations last week against a New Mexico state lawmaker, who cast himself as the victim of politically motivated lies. In an open letter published online, Laura Bonar accused Democratic Rep.…
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Wayne Williams: Colorado elections run smoothly, with a little help from the National Guard
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Colorado’s 2017 election went off without a hitch, Secretary of State Wayne Williams said Thursday – a remarkable feat considering nearly half of the state’s counties were using new election equipment – but if any problems had arisen, the National Guard was on hand to help resolve them. “We just believe it’s important to have…
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Officials: Russian hackers scanned Colorado’s election infrastructure last year but failed to breach it
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Russian hackers tried without success to get into Colorado’s computerized voter system before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Friday. The Department of Homeland Security informed Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office in a phone call before noon that Colorado was among states targeted last summer by hackers earlier identified…
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Bennet, Democratic senators press Trump administration over down-playing ‘far-right extremism’
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is among two dozen Democrats pressing the Trump administration over its response to domestic terrorism, including what the lawmakers called an apparent de-emphasis on “far-right extremism.” A vehicle assault associated with a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead and more than a dozen people injured “was seemingly…
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VIDEO: Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet says ‘Putin couldn’t ask for a better friend’ than Donald Trump
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said Russian President Vladimir Putin “couldn’t ask for a better friend” than President Donald Trump on Thursday during a discussion with a bipartisan group of lawmakers sponsored by CBS News. After a Republican congressman from Texas said Russia should face consequences for “interfering in our democracy,” Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, said…
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Officials: Colorado’s election infrastructure not among 39 states’ reportedly hit by Russian cyber attack
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Colorado’s computerized voter system doesn’t appear to have been targeted by Russian hackers who penetrated systems in two states last summer and reportedly tried to access files in dozens of other states before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Tuesday. While the Colorado system is subject to hundreds of…
