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Federal judge declines to reconsider rejection of challenge to Colorado Springs municipal elections
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A federal judge on Tuesday stood by his previous decision that a collection of civic and voting rights groups lacked the ability to challenge the timing of Colorado Springs’ municipal elections. Last summer, U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews did not address whether the city’s practice of holding local elections in odd-numbered years amounted…
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10th Circuit reinstates malicious prosecution claim against ex-Denver DA employee
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For the second time in four years, the federal appeals court based in Colorado has reinstated a claim of malicious prosecution against a former employee of the Denver District Attorney’s Office whose allegedly false testimony caused the plaintiffs to be wrongfully arrested. Victoria Carbajal and Luis Leal first filed suit more than a decade ago,…
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Federal judge throws out challenge to Colorado Springs’ local election schedule
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A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a voting rights challenge to Colorado Springs’ municipal election schedule, brought by four civic groups seeking to force the city to move its April elections to November to reduce turnout disparities among voters of color. The parties submitted hundreds of pages of evidence disputing whether April elections in…
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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
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During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr., in his dissenting opinion in December,…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
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Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…
