The case will be heard by the seven justices on the state court, all of whom were appointed by Democrats.
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Trump lawyers move “insurrection” clause lawsuit aiming to bar him from Colorado ballot to federal court
The case is the first of what’s expected to be many challenges filed in various states by a liberal nonprofit. They can ask to have it moved back to Colorado court.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Littwin: They’re calling it the mug shot seen ’round the world. That doesn’t mean we all see the same thing.
Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Trump’s mug shot is a classic look into reality versus propaganda. In either case, don’t expect it to change anyone’s mind.
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Silverman: Podcasts give us hope justice will prevail in Trump litigation
Many people in the podcast world are pinning hopes on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump
Posted inOpinion Columns
Littwin: The hearings are over, charges referred and this time Trump is really done, right?
That’s a possibility, of course. Another is that he wins the GOP nomination for president and we start all over again.
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Littwin: An open mind and the latest Jan. 6 House committee hearing should seal the case against Trump
The most obvious question before us following Thursday night’s powerful, Trump-eviscerating Jan. 6 committee hearing is whether it moved the needle even a little. Because if this prime-time hearing — almost certain to have been the most watched of the committee’s mini-series to date, following, as it did, Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony while promising a […]
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Drew Litton: An American horror show plays out in Jan. 6 hearings
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inCrime and Courts, News
Man accused of assaulting police, AP photographer in Jan. 6 Capitol riot arrested in Brighton
By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press DENVER — A Maryland man is accused of throwing a flagpole and a smoke grenade at police and assaulting an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents released Tuesday. Rodney Milstreed allegedly threw the flagpole bearing a Navy flag “javelin-like” […]
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Littwin: All Biden has to do is return the country to normalcy. How hard could that be?
There’s no real secret as to why Joe Biden’s approval ratings are in the dumpster after his first year as president. It’s got little enough to do with being too liberal or too old or too weak or too gullible about bipartisanship or for botching the Afghanistan withdrawal or going too easy on Joe Manchin […]
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Lauren Boebert vows to stay her course as she seeks another term in Congress
GRAND JUNCTION — Far-right conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert announced Friday morning from the basement of a bank in Grand Junction that she is seeking a second term representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. In an appearance that was toned down relative to a recent performance at a Turning Point USA conference where she strutted across a […]