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Reports: Colorado’s Gorsuch top Trump pick for Supreme Court
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Conservative Colorado judge Neil Gorsuch is the leading contender for President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, which could happen as early as next week, according to media reports. Gorsuch, who sits on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, was included in a list of 21 potential nominees for the Supreme Court released…
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Nicolais: GOP draws royal flush, payout might come from Colorado
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Earlier this year, I compared the Republican Supreme Court challenge to playing poker. With President Obama nominating Merrick Garland for the vacant seat left after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP-controlled Senate refused to hold hearings, much less a vote. Republicans were betting on winning back the Oval Office and maintaining control of…
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Nicolais: Political calendar countdown … to Oct. 7th?
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Tick-tock, tick-tock. The political world is officially measuring the distance to this November’s election in days, now. What once seemed endlessly far, the race to Nov. 8 is in the homestretch. But Oct. 7 is even closer. If the date doesn’t make anything jump immediately to mind, that’s all right. It probably doesn’t for most…
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Biden, Supreme Court nominee on Hill to pressure GOP
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Judge Merrick Garland found himself back on Capitol Hill on Thursday in a familiar place – meeting with a Democratic senator who used the visit to complain about Republicans’ inaction on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. said he met with Garland to “see…
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Clinton taps Ken Salazar to head White House transition team
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday named Ken Salazar, a former interior secretary and U.S. senator from Colorado, to chair her transition team. “Once Hillary Clinton makes history by being elected as the nation’s first woman president, we want to have a turnkey operation in place so she can hit the ground running right…
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Nicolais: Supreme Court refuses to pull the trigger on gun laws
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Supreme Court inaction often speaks as loudly as any opinion. By denying review of recent gun control laws in New York and Connecticut, the court effectively allowed the bans to remain in place. Without issuing a word on the merits, the court affected the gun rights debate more than Congress has over the past two…
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Aguilar: Full Supreme Court needed to decide crucial issues affecting Colorado families
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Some politicians do not want abortion to be legal, so they push creative and insidious bills aimed at making abortion harder to get. A recent attempt introduced by conservative Colorado legislators was modeled on a Texas law that requires doctors who provide abortion care to have “admitting privileges” at a nearby hospital, among other things.…
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Perl: Can new judicial emergency in Colorado spur action on stalled nomination process?
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Last week, after just a single day of court operations with six active judges and an empty judgeship, Colorado’s federal trial court caseload rose to a staggering 631 cases per judgeship. This prompted the nonpartisan Administrative Office of the United States Courts to declare the vacant seat on the U.S. District Court for Colorado a…
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The Hot Sheet, March 17, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 45 | MARCH 17, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Happy St. Patricks Day! Lot’s of phone calls and emails from y’all yesterday. You folks absolutely love The Hot Sheet. It warms my heart. We are going to continue to dig deep…
