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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter wants courts to decide if Trump’s ongoing foreign business deals violate Constitution
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter said Friday he’s suing President Donald Trump because he believes it’s a violation of the Constitution if the president’s businesses keep receiving payments from foreign governments without an OK from Congress. Perlmutter is among the nearly 200 congressional Democrats – including all three fellow Democrats in Colorado’s delegation, U.S. Sen. Michael…
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All four Democratic members of Colorado’s delegation join emoluments lawsuit against Trump
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Every Democratic member of Congress from Colorado has signed on to a federal lawsuit charging President Donald Trump with accepting “emoluments,” or benefits, from foreign states without obtaining the approval of Congress, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter are among the…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
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The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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Bennet: Trump should donate profits from other facets of business empire
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to donate all profits from foreign governments patronizing his hotels to the U.S. Treasury, noting all the businesses bearing the president’s name should fall under the commitment. In a letter sent last week to White House Counsel Donald McGahn, his third to the Trump administration…
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Spicer mum on Bennet-Gardner proposal to arrest ‘naughty’ senators if government shuts down
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer this week declined to weigh in on proposals to punish members of Congress if they can’t avert a potential government shutdown at the end of April, saying he doesn’t want to get into which lawmakers are “going to be naughty and nice.” In his daily press briefing on Thursday, Spicer brushed aside a question…
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‘Is Mike Coffman invincible?’ Aurora Republican talks campaign, policy at 62nd birthday party
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Before he talked about the upcoming congressional agenda and assessed his chances in next year’s election – it’ll be a tough race, he’s sure of it – Mike Coffman dropped to the floor last Sunday afternoon and did some push-ups, one for each year he’s been on this earth. “There’s this ridiculous tradition where I…
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Coffman plans to block feds from marijuana crackdown in Colorado by cutting off their funds
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman says he’s planning to block Attorney General Jeff Sessions from cracking down on Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry by forbidding the federal government from spending funds in the state to enforce federal laws banning the drug. The Aurora Republican told supporters at a fundraiser for his congressional campaign on Sunday that he…
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Attorney General Coffman says she’ll ‘stand up for the voters’ if feds crack down on marijuana
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Colorado’s chief law enforcement officer says she’s prepared to take on the federal government if the Trump administration threatens the state’s recreational marijuana industry. White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Thursday ignited a furor when he told reporters that states could face “greater enforcement” of federal laws banning recreational marijuana, although he didn’t go into…
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Lawmakers, industry leaders denounce White House marijuana enforcement signals
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Word that the White House could begin cracking down on the marijuana trade in states that have legalized the drug drew swift rebuke Thursday from Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, the first state to cultivate a recreational pot industry. “Whether it is building a wall or stripping protections for trans students, President Trump has already shown…