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A LOOK BACK | Top-ticket Dems make announcements; Schroeder mulls run for president
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Sixty-Five Years Ago This Week: Colorado Gov. Steve McNichols and U.S. Sen. John A. Carroll had each announced in separate press events that they would be seeking reelection, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from many fellow Democrat. Statewide Democratic candidates had been saying for weeks that they felt sidelined because of the absence of…
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Biden judicial nominee for Colorado clears U.S. Senate panel in bipartisan vote
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The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary advanced the nomination of Nina Y. Wang on Thursday morning by a 14-8 vote, setting her up for confirmation before the full Senate to an upcoming vacancy on Colorado’s seven-member federal trial court. President Joe Biden nominated Wang in January to succeed U.S. District Court Judge Christine M.…
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Weiser joins AGs calling for Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is among two dozen state attorneys general who endorsed President Biden’s nominee to serve on the Supreme Court, calling Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “a highly qualified legal mind, who has been at the forefront of the legal field for decades” and will be the first Black woman to sit on…
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Colorado’s Buck, Neguse hammer along party lines in Trump impeachment hearing
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Two Coloradans sitting on opposite sides of a wide partisan divide questioned legal scholars Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee conducted its first day of hearings to determine whether to impeach President Donald Trump. U.S. Reps. Ken Buck and Joe Neguse each held the microphone for five minutes during tense, day-long testimony that featured four…
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Noonan: In politics, a principled person is hard to find
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Huey Long, the legendary populist from Louisiana, said “The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century transcendentalist, said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Both aphorisms are much in play lately. Republican Sen. Tim Neville, R-Littleton, is sponsoring a bill, SB17-062, on free…
