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Colorado lawmakers begin to tackle major housing bills, including occupancy limitations
Major measures on housing are starting to move at the state Capitol this week, which saw the first hearings on some of the roughly 260 bills introduced in this session so far. Colorado faces an acute housing shortage. One study puts the deficit in metro Denver region alone at 45,025 to 115,012 housing units. As…
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Watch Lauren Boebert, CD4 candidates debate, Republicans pick Rose Pugliese as House leader | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is Jan. 26, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: More than a dozen Republicans seeking the nomination in two of Colorado’s most competitive congressional primaries faced off for the first time Thursday night in Fort Lupton. House Republicans on Thursday chose Assistant Minority Leader Rose Pugliese of Colorado Springs as the caucus’…
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‘More than a symbol’: Western Slope’s Gordon Gallagher ceremonially sworn in to federal judgeship
In little over two years since taking office, President Joe Biden has made multiple historic appointments to Colorado’s federal trial court, selecting the first openly gay judge and the first Asian American judge, for example. But Biden opted for a different kind of diversity when he installed the most recent member of the U.S. District…
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Federal judiciary again recommends 2 new judge seats for Colorado
The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has once again recommended that Congress create two new seats on Colorado’s seven-member trial court. On Tuesday, the Judicial Conference of the United States released its list of districts in which the workload merits additional judges, with the largest increases requested in the federal trial courts for California, Texas and Florida.…
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Biden nominates Kato Crews for federal judgeship
The Biden administration has chosen U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews to fill an upcoming vacancy on Colorado’s federal trial court, the president’s fifth nominee to the court in just two years. Crews has been a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court since 2018. Although magistrate judges tend to focus on preliminary and administrative…
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With Democrats’ continued control of U.S. Senate, Colorado judicial nominations appear on track
With Democrats retaining at least 50 seats in the U.S. Senate heading into the new Congress, judicial nominations for the federal courts based in Colorado will likely continue to be filled in a timely fashion. “I have no reason to believe that there will be any hiccups with any of those vacancies,” said John P. Collins…
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Republican candidate for Senate, Joe O’Dea, makes a concession speech after losing his Senate bid to incumbent Democratic Senator, Michael Bennet
Republican candidate for Senate, Joe O’Dea, makes a concession speech after losing his Senate bid to incumbent Democratic Senator, Michael Bennet
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GOP groups outspending Democratic allies in Colorado Senate races
The latest campaign finance reports show the “soft money” group dedicated to supporting Republicans running in Colorado Senate races is outspending its Democratic counterpart by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The Senate Majority Fund’s independent expenditure committee, which backs Senate Republican candidates, and All Together Colorado, the Democrats’ soft side IEC, collectively spent about $6 million on…
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Raymond Moore announces retirement, creating judicial vacancy for Biden
U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore has announced his intention to retire from active service on Colorado’s federal trial court, creating another judicial vacancy for President Joe Biden to fill. Moore, a 2013 appointee of Barack Obama, will take a form of retirement known as senior status on June 20, 2023. As a senior…