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The anti-trans Trump GOP’s odd military obsession | BIDLACK

2 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Hal Bidlack

Long ago, way back to when I was a new second lieutenant and brand new to the Air Force, I showed up at then Vandenberg Air Force Base to start my career and to attend what was called “missile school” for short, a very intense sixteen-week course that took students from zero knowledge of the nuclear missile force to being trained and tested to sit nuclear alert at the various ICBM bases around the American west.
'Liberty' statue stands 58 feet tall above Aurora, rivaling size of 'Blucifer'

2 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Kyla Pearce

Standing at almost twice the height of Denver International Airport's famed Blucifer horse statue, a 58-foot-tall contemporary rendition of the Statue of Liberty now glimmers in the sunlight in east Aurora. The new statue, "Liberty," rivaling the size of 32-foot-tall Blucifer, went up over the weekend near the future entrance to The Aurora Highlands master planned community off Interstate 70.
JeffCo Sheriff's Office demonstrates new forensic ballistics technology

3 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Sage Kelley

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office's new ballistic 3D rendering machine will help the county solve gun-related crimes a bit faster. "This is a huge success to have this machine in place. Citizens will be safer because of it," Brent Beavers, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Denver Field Division, told the media during a tour of the county's crime laboratory on Monday morning.
Legislature makes mockery of immigration laws | BRAUCHLER

4 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | George Brauchler

SB 25-276 is a Democrat-only sponsored bill that attacks the Rule of Law and will make Colorado less safe and less just. It contains a predictably steep, yet unquantified, unfunded mandate to counties, who fund the 23 district attorneys’ offices across Colorado.
Civil rights advisory body launches investigation into alleged antisemitism on Auraria Campus

5 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Kyla Pearce

A Colorado panel advising a federal civil rights commission will investigate alleged antisemitism at three colleges and universities in Colorado that share the Auraria Campus in Denver in light of nationwide protests that spread across American campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
'Deceivingly complicated': Appeals judges talk to lawyers about postconviction cases

5 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Michael Karlik

Members of Colorado's second-highest court told lawyers and judges on Thursday what they are looking for when a convicted defendant argues they are entitled to relief for reasons beyond the typical array of trial-related errors. In contrast to direct appeals of criminal convictions, which usually allege errors before trial, at trial or at sentencing, defendants also have the opportunity to seek postconviction relief directly in the trial courts.
Democrat Jena Griswold lands endorsements from Perlmutter, Peña in Colorado attorney general primary

5 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Ernest Luning

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Friday announced dozens of new endorsements for her campaign in next year's Democratic primary for attorney general, including former U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and two former Denver mayors, Federico Peña and Michael Hancock.
Fields for Colorado's top 2026 statewide, congressional races begin to take shape | TRAIL MIX

5 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Ernest Luning

Colorado's political world is in as close to a lull as it's likely to get this cycle — six months past the 2024 general election, days after the end of this year's regular legislative session, and with just over a year to go until voters begin casting primary ballots. Major candidates for the state's most prominent and competitive 2026 contests have already emerged, but many are about to get more company.
For Colorado Catholics, first U.S. pope was an exciting surprise

6 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Bernadette Berdychowski |Michael Braithwaite

It was just about two weeks ago when anyone near Colfax Avenue could hear the slow funerary bells coming from Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception to mark the death of Pope Francis. On Thursday, the bells rang much more profusely, and this time, with a joyful hymn. White smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:07 p.m. Thursday in Rome’s local time. And the new pope? He’s an American — Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69. Prevost, born in Chicago, took the name Pope Leo XIV.
Appeals court overturns $4 million jury award for elderly woman subject to Denver SWAT search

6 days ago | coloradopolitics.com | Michael Karlik

Colorado's second-highest court last week overturned a jury's roughly $4 million award to an elderly Denver woman who was subject to a SWAT raid on her home after police believed, incorrectly, a stolen iPhone would be found inside. In ordering a new civil trial, a three-judge Court of Appeals panel imposed a new burden on plaintiffs seeking to prove police conducted an unlawful search under the Colorado Constitution. It is not enough, explained Judge Ted C.