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Colorado on track to receive $385 million from settlements over opioid epidemic
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Colorado is on track to receive roughly $385 million as part of legal settlements reached with Johnson & Johnson and three of the country’s largest drug distribution companies over their role fueling the opioid epidemic, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday. The sum represents Colorado’s share of the payout in a $26 billion class…
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Public can access new searchable database to determine instances when Colorado police officer certification was revoked
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While continuing to withhold from the public fuller employment histories of Colorado’s police officers, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office unveiled on Monday a searchable database that allows the public to track instances where the state revoked the certification police officers must hold to work for police agencies. The public can search the database by typing in an officer’s…
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TRAIL MIX | Candidate switcheroos are nothing new in Colorado
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Wouldn’t you know it, less than a week after last week’s Trail Mix column went to press, it was obsolete. In the holiday news lull, it had seemed like a good opportunity to take stock of the candidate line-ups in major Colorado races. While savvy political watchers have been expecting at least a few additional contenders…
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s fundraiser in Hawaii draws complaint from Republican group
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Following a fundraiser at an exclusive resort in Hawaii, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is facing a complaint accusing him of violating the state’s campaign finance laws. Defend Colorado, a Republican affiliated dark money group that has put Democrats in its crosshairs before, has filed a formal complaint alleging that the Democratic attorney general did…
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‘No one is above the law’: Advocates hail criminal indictments in Elijah McClain’s death
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Family members, elected officials and criminal justice reform advocates called criminal indictments unsealed Wednesday charging Aurora police officers and paramedics in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain a “powerful reminder” that no one is above the law. “Nothing will bring back my son, but I am thankful that his killers will finally be held accountable.”…
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State redistricting commissions rebuke lawmakers’ ‘unconstitutional infringement’ in census matter
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Colorado’s two independent redistricting commissions have two words for state lawmakers: Hands off. In legal briefs filed by the two commissions, they wrote that state lawmakers overstepped their boundaries when they quickly advanced a piece of legislation that would change the redistricting process overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018. Now they want the Colorado Supreme…
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Colorado criminal justice leaders urge Biden to end federal death penalty
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Several Colorado criminal justice leaders signed a nationwide bipartisan letter Monday, asking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to immediately take action to end the federal death penalty in the U.S. The letter was signed by nearly 100 leaders, including Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser, District Attorneys Michael Dougherty and Beth McCann, former District Attorney…
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Denver immigration forum: Gardner hopes for reform before Supreme Court acts
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Friday that he hopes Congress can pass the Dream Act – a bill to protect the status of the children of undocumented immigrants – even before the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue in October. “I hope Congress acts, not because of a date in court or because of an election…
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AG Weiser to Colorado law enforcement: Follow the law on red-flag gun bill
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, one day before a state Senate committee is expected to hear the controversial red-flag bill, issued a plea of sorts to sheriffs and other law enforcement officials who oppose the gun measure if it is approved by the General Assembly and the governor. The bill would allow a court to…
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Colorado, 15 other states sue Trump over emergency wall declaration (VIDEO)
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Colorado and 15 other states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national-emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up a showdown with the administration that could go to the Supreme Court and last through the 2020 election. The complaint, filed Monday in California’s Northern District, seeks judicial…
