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Here’s what John Hickenlooper thinks about a U.S. Supreme Court expansion and what makes a good justice
As President Donald Trump and Republicans in the Senate look to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, the court is becoming a central election issue
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Cory Gardner has voted to confirm 98% of Trump’s judicial nominees as decision on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat looms
By Jesse Paul Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Postal Service says it has already delivered to Coloradans 75% of its flyers containing incorrect mail-in voting information
By Colorado Sun staff and wire report Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Trump administration rescinds rule requiring foreign students to attend in-person classes or leave U.S.
By The Associated Press Education Primary category in which blog post is published
Denver reaches agreement in lawsuit over police response to George Floyd protests
By The Associated Press News Primary category in which blog post is published
Weld County jail, following federal judge’s orders, identifies 89 inmates vulnerable to coronavirus
Judge Philip Brimmer ruled earlier this month that Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams failed to take adequate measures to protect inmates and violated their Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment
Federal judge cancels oil and gas leases on some sage grouse land
The birds that range across 11 Western states, including Colorado, have suffered sharp population declines in recent decades because of development, disease, drought and wildfires.
Judge: Federal government’s lawsuit against Durango railroad over 2018 wildfire should proceed
In July, the U.S. government named the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad as the cause of the 416 Fire
Judge rules that Denver’s urban camping ban is unconstitutional
Denver County Judge Johnny C. Barajas cited a decision last year from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down a ban on camping in public places in Boise, Idaho
Court sides with Colorado’s federal supermax prison in censorship case brought by magazine
The three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected an argument by the magazine's publisher, Prison Legal News, that a court order was warranted to prevent future censorship
Suspected gunman in 2015 Planned Parenthood shooting federally indicted after four years of stalled state case
Colorado's U.S. Attorney's Office announced the 68-count indictment on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear Jr. could face the death penalty in the case.
Man charged in Pueblo synagogue bomb plot pleads not guilty in federal court
Richard Holzer, 27, was arrested Nov. 1 after the FBI said he accepted what turned out to be phony pipe bombs and dynamite from undercover agents to bomb Temple Emanuel in Pueblo
Former Westminster cop pleads guilty to violating civil rights of woman he sexually assaulted on duty
Curtis Arganbright, 42, faces up to 10 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in March
Ex-Colorado cop, whose 90-day jail sentence for unlawful sexual contact drew outrage, charged with federal civil rights violation
Curtis Lee Arganbright faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted in a rare federal intervention in a case involving a Colorado police officer