Tag: U.s. Supreme Court
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Bill to protect abortion rights wins approval from Democratic-controlled House panel
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lawmakers worked overnight and into early Thursday morning on legislation that seeks to enshrine the unequivocal right to an abortion in state law. The House Health & Insurance Committee approved House Bill 1279 along a 7-4 party-line vote just after 3:40 a.m. More than 300…
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Struggle over congressional redistricting plan’s Hispanic voter protections heads to Supreme Court
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Over the past week, Coloradans have seen a new, 8-district congressional map, adopted by the state’s inaugural independent congressional redistricting commission, but whether it actually becomes the state’s next congressional map is still uncertain. The new redistricting process, which follows from ballot measures that amended…
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Census data reveals population adjustments needed in draft maps
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s redistricting commissioners decided earlier this year to use incomplete and out-of-date data to draw the preliminary draft maps that are being toured around the state for public input. The commissioners knew at the time that their maps would end up needing adjustments, because the…
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Sentence reduced for abused teen who got life for killing Denver police officer in 1995
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver District Attorney Beth McCann decided “extraordinary mitigating circumstances” warranted the reduction in the sentence — and eventual release from prison — of a man sentenced as a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the fatal shooting of a Denver police officer.…
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Sentence reduced for abused teen who got life for killing Denver police officer in 1995
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver District Attorney Beth McCann decided “extraordinary mitigating circumstances” warranted the reduction in the sentence — and eventual release from prison — of a man sentenced as a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of…
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UNCHARTED WATERS | Will redistricting face smooth sailing, or are there dangers ahead?
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Months ahead of any of the actual mapmaking at the center of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process, emerging challenges — from fewer and less diverse applicants for the commissions than hoped for, to problems administering the…
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Clinton taps Ken Salazar to head White House transition team
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday named Ken Salazar, a former interior secretary and U.S. senator from Colorado, to chair her transition team. “Once Hillary Clinton makes history by being elected as the nation’s first woman president, we want to have a turnkey operation…