Tag: Mike Weissman
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more
Let’s be clear: There is no “prison crowding” crisis in Colorado. The real crisis is our Democratic legislature’s quest to free as many convicts as it can — public safety be damned. To make that happen, lawmakers will grasp at any pretext, even if it has to gin one up. And all too often, Gov.…
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Colorado Senate committee rejects transparency bill that would have applied to legislative caucuses
A panel of Senators voted down a proposed measure requiring legislative caucuses to disclose certain financial records. Sponsored by Sen. Mike Weissman, D-Aurora, Senate Bill 168 would also require legislative caucuses to provide the Legislative Council with caucus members’ contact information. The bill specifically addresses legislative caucuses based on interest, ideology, issue, or identity, not…
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EDITORIAL: Lawmakers would unleash a suing spree
Leave it to one of the state Senate’s co-apologists in chief for the criminal element, Democratic Sen. Mike Weissman of Aurora, to defend the honor of the Southern Poverty Law Center. That’s the Montgomery, Ala.-based activist group that made national headlines last week when it was indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts…
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EDITORIAL: The death of justice — by a thousand cuts
Just how obsessed is the legislature’s “justice reform” wing with emptying Colorado’s prisons? Let’s just say if they could get away with it, they’d stage a fire drill and open the gates at every corrections facility in the state — then pretend not to notice when no one returned. The extremists among ruling legislative Democrats…
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Colorado Democratic bill would allow lawsuits against federal officials, drawing warnings from local critics
Colorado Democrats are considering a bill that would let people sue federal, state, and local officials for alleged constitutional violations — a change supporters say would check government power but critics warn could trigger a surge of lawsuits against public employees. Senate Bill 176 would allow individuals who have been subjected to a “deprivation of…
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EDITORIAL: Downgrading murder equals justice deformed
It might sound like an overstatement to say Colorado’s offender-friendly legislature is hellbent on decriminalizing crime itself. But, really, what else could you make of House Bill 26-1281, introduced just the other day at the state Capitol? Get ready to blink in disbelief. Members of the “justice reform” fringe among ruling Democrats at the legislature…
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EDITORIAL: Defiance of immigration laws will backfire on Colorado
The contempt for law enforcement among ruling Democrats at the State Capitol has escalated — from reckless to delusional. It was in 2020 that the Democratic majority in the legislature, led by its soft-on-crime political fringe, revoked qualified immunity from law officers across our state. It has had a chilling effect on law enforcement ever…
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Colorado Senate committee balks at governor’s judicial discipline nominations
In a bipartisan rebuke of how a years-long scandal has been handled, a Colorado Senate committee on Monday made the rare move of not approving the gubernatorial reappointment of the top two members of the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline. Just months after voters statewide overwhelmingly chose to change how Colorado disciplines judges, the state…
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Colorado Senate committee advances bill to create 29 judgeships, with lawmaker support delicate
‘There is no time for reviewing the case before trial. I have to wing everything,’ warned one county court judicial officer
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Federal judge weighs whether to block new law governing loans to Colorado residents
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Thursday heard arguments from the banking industry and bank regulators about whether Colorado is exceeding its authority by subjecting out-of-state banks to Colorado’s interest rate caps on loans through a new law set to take effect on July 1. The controversy…