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Colorado’s crowded gubernatorial primary fields take shape as race looms for open seat | TRAIL MIX
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A few months after celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial next summer, voters will elect the state’s 44th governor in the first open race for the seat since term-limited Democrat Jared Polis was elected eight years earlier. At last count, four Democrats and a jaw-dropping 15 Republicans had filed paperwork to run for the post, though the number…
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Q&A with Judge Gordon Gallagher | Colorado’s first federal district judge stationed on Western Slope
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Gordon P. Gallagher first joined Colorado’s federal trial court in 2012 as a part-time magistrate judge stationed in Grand Junction. In March 2023, the U.S. Senate confirmed him to a lifetime appointment as a district judge — one of five Biden administration appointees to the state’s U.S. District Court. Gallagher became the first district judge in…
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet coming to Fountain and Pueblo this weekend
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Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet will be coming to Fountain and Pueblo for a veteran’s roundtable and a town hall, respectively, this Saturday. Bennet will participate in the roundtable in Fountain before heading to Pueblo East High School for the town hall at 3 p.m. The roundtable, to be held at the Veterans of Foreign Wars…
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Trump presidency raises possibility of 10th Circuit vacancy, with eyes on Domenico
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With President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January and a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, the federal appeals court in Denver could soon see a vacancy arise for one of its Colorado-based seats. Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich has sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit for more than 20 years.…
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Colorado senators push legislation for financial relief for Arkansas Valley Conduit
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A subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Wednesday got its first look at a bill sponsored by Colorado’s two senators that would help finance the Arkansas Valley Conduit. S. 5013 is known as Finish the AVC Act. It would extend the period for repaying the federal government for the…
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Protection or overreach? In western Colorado, national monument proposal ignites controversy
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Sean Pond was around a small town of his native western Colorado when he spotted a man in a blue ball cap. Above the bill were the words at the center of an ongoing controversy: “PROTECT THE DOLORES.” Pond approached the man. “He said someone at REI just gave it to him and he liked…
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Senate Judiciary Committee advances bill to give Colorado 2 more federal judges
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced a bill on Thursday that would add more than five dozen judgeships to federal trial courts across the country, including two for Colorado. “Our federal courts are in a genuine crisis of workload,” said U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. “Not since 1990 have we added any significant amount…
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The ‘first third’: Kato Crews ceremonially sworn in as federal judge
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President Joe Biden’s first four appointments to Colorado’s federal trial court were “firsts” of one kind or another. But S. Kato Crews, Biden’s latest appointee to the U.S. District Court, said on Friday that he proudly thinks of himself as the “first third” — the third consecutive magistrate judge elevated to a lifetime appointment and the third…
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The Bennet-Hickenlooper Court: How 2 senators left their mark on Colorado’s federal bench | COVER STORY
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One month before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Dana Remus, the incoming White House counsel, sent a letter to senators outlining the new administration’s philosophy for filling certain presidentially appointed roles, including federal trial judgeships. “With respect to U.S. District Court positions,” she wrote, “we are particularly focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been…
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Hundreds in Denver rally to support Ukraine on 2nd anniversary of Russian invasion
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Hundreds of Ukraine supporters gathered at a rally at the Colorado state Capitol in Denver on Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the U.S. ally. “Today, we are asking members of U.S. Congress to step up and vote for help to Ukraine,” said Marina Dubrova, president of Ukrainians of Colorado, which…