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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was formally censured by his own party Wednesday for his decision last week to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted on multiple felony counts for her role in a breach of her office’s election system. More than 200 members of the …

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, an election denier who was convicted and sentenced for her role in a breach of her office’s election system. Polis cut Peters’ sentence from nine years to four years and four and a half …

The Trump administration sued the state of Colorado on Wednesday over its restrictions on large-capacity firearm magazines, escalating a broader legal offensive against gun control measures enacted by Democratic-led governments. The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in federal court in Denver, argues that Colorado’s law banning magazines …

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to continue sending billions of dollars in child care subsidies and other social service funds to five Democratic-led states, temporarily blocking an effort by the administration to withhold the money amid allegations of fraud. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick granted the …

President Donald Trump this week exercised his veto power for the first time since returning to the White House, rejecting two bipartisan bills that had sailed through Congress with little opposition — a move that stunned lawmakers in both parties and underscored the president’s willingness to override congressional consensus to …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that U.S. Space Command headquarters will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision and reigniting a fierce political and strategic debate over the future of America’s military space operations. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete …

A 45-year-old man is facing potential first-degree murder and terrorism charges after he allegedly used a makeshift flamethrower to attack demonstrators advocating for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, Boulder County authorities said early Monday. The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman of El Paso County, was booked late Sunday …

A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday granted a motion for a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of detainees held in Colorado under the 1798 law that President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked to send hundreds of people to a brutal maximum-security prison in El Salvador. U.S. District Court …

Former President Donald Trump has taken aim at many political opponents over the years, but this weekend, he set his sights on an unlikely new foe: a portrait of himself. In a fiery post on his Truth Social platform Sunday night, Trump condemned the painting hanging in the Colorado state …

Jimmy Williams Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in total on Thursday, marking the end of a high-profile case in Colorado that stemmed from efforts to interfere with the county’s election system following the 2020 presidential election. Peters, who was convicted on seven out of …

Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Former President Donald Trump must be placed on Colorado’s 2024 ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, striking down a first-of-its-kind holding by the Colorado Supreme Court that the Republican front-runner is disqualified from office under a Civil War-era insurrection clause. Trump disqualification Read …

Jimmy Williams In a historic move, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from appearing on Colorado’s ballot over his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The case, scheduled for oral arguments on February 8, could have far-reaching implications, potentially …

Quentin Young, Michigan Advance The Colorado Republican Party has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that blocks former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. The party, which filed its appeal Wednesday in Anderson v. Griswold, argues that a majority on the …

Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Silt Republican in her second term representing Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, announced Wednesday she plans to run for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District seat next year. A MAGA provocateur who is vulnerable after almost losing her seat to a Democratic challenger in …

Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered former President Donald Trump to be barred from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot under a Civil War-era insurrection clause, in a historic ruling certain to be promptly appealed to the nation’s highest court. Six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, …