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Gold Star father Khizr Khan to headline rally for Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow
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Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who came under attack from Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign after offering to lend the Republican a copy of the Constitution, will appear at a rally on Tuesday for Jason Crow, a Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, Crow’s campaign said Friday.…
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Polis signs on to bill to protect against phone searches at airports, borders
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Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has joined a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to protect mobile phones from national border and airport searches, his office announced Tuesday. “The government should not have the right to access your personal electronic devices without probable cause,” he said. “Whether you are at home, walking down the street, or…
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Colorado ‘sanctuary state’ bill ready to roll out Thursday
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Sponsors of Colorado’s “Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act” plan to roll out the bill Thursday during a press event on the west steps of the Capitol. The hot-button bill, sponsored by Democrats Joe Salazar from Thornton and Daneya Esgar from Pueblo in the House and Lucia Guzman from Denver and Daniel Kagan from Cheery Hills…
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Polis dives in to massive town halls, plays reporter, counselor, party host
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis on Sunday worked a 20 foot stretch of the line of people that snaked around Broomfield High School. It was a perfect Colorado springtime afternoon yet more than a 1,000 people showed up for his congressional town hall. The same amount turned out hours later 55 miles north at the town…
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Colorado Senate GOP leaders quickly, quietly dispatch resolution asking Trump to lift immigration order
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State Senate Republican leaders Tuesday sent hot-button Colorado Joint Resolution 1013 to die quickly and quietly in a sparsely attended State Affairs committee hearing. The resolution asked President Trump to lift his order banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States – the controversial order presently stayed, its constitutionality and…
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Official: Some refugees still arriving in Colorado this week in wake of order
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State officials said an estimated 17 refugees should be arriving in Colorado by Thursday under President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Seven refugees – from countries including Bhutan, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Afghanistan – were scheduled to arrive in the state Monday and Tuesday, officials with the Colorado Department…
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Colorado House resolution demands Trump lift order banning some refugee, immigrant U.S. entry
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In an emotional and at times contentious stretch of speeches that lasted more than an hour Tuesday, Colorado House Democrats passed a resolution asking President Donald Trump to lift the executive order he issued last week that banned entry to the country of refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries and that sparked protests…
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Trump immigration orders charge ‘sanctuary’ debate at Capitol
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State Rep. Joe Salazar, a Thornton Democrat, said the explosive Trump White House – which has taken even Republican members of Congress and cabinet appointees by surprise in the ten days since inauguration – is affecting the mood at the Capitol in Denver. “I can say it has changed conversations,” Salazar told The Colorado Statesman…
