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GOP candidate Barlock’s path to Trump is a winding road through Denver history
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(Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of personal profiles about candidates for Colorado governor. Read here about Donna Lynne, Victor Mitchell, Cary Kennedy and Tom Tancredo.) Steve Barlock might have entered the Colorado governor’s race through the Donald Trump door, but he and his family delivered him there through the winding road…
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Eid’s move up leaves an empty chair on the Colorado Supreme Court
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It’s like a game of musical chairs – except, at the end, there’s one too many seats instead of too few. As our Ernest Luning reported earlier, the U.S. Senate voted 56-41 on Thursday to confirm Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, filling the vacancy created by Justice Neil Gorsuch’s…
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Colorado’s Sen. Cory Gardner vouches for Judge Allison Eid on U.S. Senate floor
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Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid was confirmed onto the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals by the U.S. Senate Thursday with the support of both Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner. She only could have benefitted from a floor speech Wednesday by Gardner, a Republican from Yuma. “What her resume clearly shows is…
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Gorsuch’s early Supreme Court record shows signs of controversy
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WASHINGTON – Neil Gorsuch’s first six months on the U.S. Supreme Court indicate he is already creating sharply divided opinions about his performance. Gorsuch was appointed to the Supreme Court in April after serving for 11 years as a federal judge in Denver. Most of the time in Washington he has continued the staunchly conservative…
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Colorado Republican Doug Robinson looks ahead in gubernatorial run: ‘We’re not going to drift to a better place’
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Doug Robinson compares winning the Republican nomination for governor of Colorado to getting hired after a really long job interview, and he believes his background and experience will give him the edge. One of seven declared GOP candidates for next year’s election – with at least three heavyweights waiting in the wings – Robinson speaks…
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Two Colorado yeas for David Bernhardt — a vote of confidence and a note of caution
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He may have voted against Coloradan Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet came home today in support of another Colorado appointee by the Trump administration. Granted, it was at best qualified support for West Slope native cum Beltway insider David Bernhardt, a Republican lawyer-lobbyist whom…
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Gorsuch getting a send-off from Niwot during Independence Day parade
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Newly robed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch might ride in the town of Niwot’s Fourth of July parade Tuesday. The judge and his family have been invited, but Colorado Politics hasn’t yet been able to confirm his attendance. The Boulder County Republican Party is publicizing the possibility, but it forwarded our question to the parade…
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Colorado’s Justice Eid gets Trump team’s nod for Gorsuch’s old job
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As anticipated, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid has been nominated by the Trump administration to serve on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Eid previously had landed on the president’s list of prospects for an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court. That job ultimately went to the 10th Circuit’s Neil Gorsuch, of Colorado,…
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Gorsuch asks his first questions from Supreme Court bench
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wasn’t shy Monday about making his voice heard as he took his seat on the bench for the first time to hear arguments. The new justice took less than 15 minutes before asking questions during an employment discrimination case. Gorsuch and his colleagues were hearing cases for the first time…
