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Colorado lawmakers advance ‘assault weapons’ ban; Jeff Crank qualifies for 5th CD ballot; House speaker has final say on GOP impeachment resolution vs. Jena Griswold | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 20, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A bill banning 13 types of “assault weapons” won a party-line 7-3 vote in the House Judiciary Committee. The panel began reviewing House Bill 1292 Tuesday morning, a hearing that lasted until just after midnight Wednesday, some 14 hours after it started. About…
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Colorado lawmakers advance ‘assault weapons’ ban; Jeff Crank qualifies for 5th CD ballot; House speaker has final say on GOP impeachment resolution vs. Jena Griswold | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 20, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A bill banning 13 types of “assault weapons” won a party-line 7-3 vote in the House Judiciary Committee. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); The panel began reviewing House Bill 1292 Tuesday morning, a hearing that lasted until just after midnight Wednesday, some 14 hours after…
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US Supreme Court rules for Trump in disqualification case; Colorado residents to cast ballots on Super Tuesday | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 5, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado voters finish casting ballots today in the state’s presidential primary, joining 15 other states and a territory voting on Super Tuesday. In place since the late 1980s, it’s called Super Tuesday because it’s the busiest day on the primary election calendar, with…
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No constitutional right to plead guilty, appeals court says in upholding El Paso County convictions
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An El Paso County judge was not constitutionally obligated to accept a defendant’s guilty plea, Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week. Appealing his convictions, Timothy Ray Scott Jr. argued his trial judge violated his constitutional right to “autonomy” by not letting him plead guilty. The U.S. Supreme Court has previously interpreted the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of…
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Colorado governor’s wildlife appointees rejected by panel, lawmakers discuss AI gun detection, Denver to close migrant shelters | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 1, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Last year, Gov. Jared Polis appointed three people — allegedly with ties to the animal rights community — to the state’s parks and wildlife commission But those nominees still had to go through a confirmation process with the state Senate, and on Thursday,…
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How Colorado became the focal point of 14th Amendment efforts to disqualify Trump from the ballot
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The extraordinary Colorado election case now headed for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if former President Donald Trump is disqualified from the ballot had its humble beginnings three years ago in the Maryland basement office of a self-proclaimed legal nerd. It was around New Year’s Day 2021. Constitutional scholar and University of Maryland law school…
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Trump closes gap in Colorado, George Brauchler runs for district attorney, Denver council OKs $25M contract to house immigrants | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 7, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: With Donald Trump all but certain to become the Republican nominee, a recent poll shows he has closed some of the gap against President Joe Biden in Colorado since losing the state by double digits four years ago. But the Republican still lags…
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10th Circuit finds no constitutional violation from warrantless arrest in man’s front yard
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed on Wednesday that Greeley police did not violate the U.S. Constitution by walking onto a man’s front yard and pulling him out of his vehicle for a traffic infraction without a warrant. The Fourth Amendment generally requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant before conducting searches and…
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Appeals court upholds ejection of disruptive observer from livestream of criminal trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last month that ejecting a disruptive observer from the livestream of a criminal trial will not typically violate the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a public trial. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals considered for the first time whether a Weld County judge effectively “closed” his courtroom mid-trial by banning…
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Colorado cap on monetary damages not unconstitutional, appeals court rules
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Colorado’s second-highest court last month rejected an attempt to declare the state’s cap on certain monetary damages unconstitutional, noting it could not overturn prior federal and state Supreme Court decisions on the subject. An Arapahoe County jury awarded Jacqueline Gebert $2.7 million in damages after a Sears repairman incorrectly rewired her stove and caused her…
