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Aaron Harber talk with Jeff Sessions airs nationally Sunday
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Denver TV personality Aaron Harber will talk to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sunday on a program carried nationally by AXS TV. The episode airs at 6 a.m. Mountain. Harber said the conversation covers the former Alabama senator’s “successes, struggles and more.” Sessions has been a pivotal national figure in the Trump administration, often drawing…
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One Colorado says religious liberty task force will codify LGBTQ bias
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions aims to harm others using a proposed religious liberty task force, says One Colorado, the state’s largest advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Coloradans. “A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom,” Sessions said a Department of Justice…
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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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AG Sessions, Hancock spar over sanctuary cities
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke of immigration in terms of cracking down on Mexican drug gangs and building a border wall Friday at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock pushed back soon after. Taking to Facebook, Hancock brought up a court opinion on the matter unflattering to the administration…
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AG Sessions, Gardner take center stage at Denver conservative summit
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Denver to talk about President Barack Obama, not President Donald Trump, it seemed Friday as he took center stage at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. He spoke of the corrections the Trump administration had made, especially on religious liberty and Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act.…
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Trump delivers a shout-out to Gardner’s pot bill
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Talking to reporters Friday, President Donald Trump said he “probably” will back legislation on states’ rights and marijuana introduced by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday. Inaudibly in a Fox News clip, a reporter calls out to Trump, evidently asking a question about the measure. He responded, “I really do, I support Sen. Gardner.…
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Republicans are giddy for Western Conservative Summit (and so are Democrats)
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Chief organizer Jeff Hunt says he hasn’t seen this much excitement around the Western Conservative Summit since Donald Trump and Sarah Palin came to Denver for the 2016 gathering. This year’s summit – the largest gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital Beltway – runs Friday and Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center. Each year…
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Gardner, Warren introduce bill to safeguard states with pot
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U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner and Elizabeth Warren unveiled legislation Thursday to make it clear that states that adequately regulate marijuana need not fear the federal government. Colorado, Massachusetts and other states that have legalized marijuana have fretted about intervention from the Trump administration, given Attorney General Jeff Session’s animosity toward pot and the fact that…
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EPA’s Pruitt to speak in Denver this weekend
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Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak in Denver this weekend, organizers of the Western Conservative Summit said Tuesday morning. Pruitt and Attorney Jeff Sessions, who was previously announced, will speak Friday night at the ticketed conclave of conservative activists and operatives at the Colorado Convention Center. “2018 will see…
