In wake of Denver arrest, talk radio’s Silverman promotes ethnic profiling
While discussing alleged al-Qaeda supporter Najibullah Zazi on 630 KHOW's Caplis and Silverman Show, Craig Silverman Monday argued that people "who look like a...
Catholic bishops silent on private insurance and abortion
Catholic leadership has worked to block health care reform mostly by arguing that Democratic plans fail to guard against public funding for abortions. ...
Lamborn miscasts Polis bill to repeal Defense of Marriage Act
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, introduced legislation in the House of Representatives yesterday that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Opponents of the...
Polis to co-sponsor bill overturning federal ban on same-sex marriage
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has signed on as a lead co-sponsor of legislation that will be introduced next week to repeal the Defense...
Supreme Court eyes campaign finance laws
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal elections.
Ethics panel hands over notes from closed meetings to judge for review
The state's top ethics panel has turned over to the Denver District Court copies of all the notes and other records made during five secret meetings a judge said were held in violation of Colorado Open Meetings Law. The judge plans to review the notes and decide whether they should be made public in response to an open records request and lawsuit filed by The Colorado Independent.
Judge: Colorado’s top ethics panel broke open meetings law
DENVER — The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission violated the state's Open Meetings Law when it failed to convene a dozen closed-door meetings held earlier this year according to strict legal requirements, a Denver District Court judge has ruled. Because the ethics panel didn't follow the law, the court ordered the state's top ethics panel to "immediately" release all records of any improperly closed meeting, even those the commission claims are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Colorado Supreme Court fast-tracks ‘clean government’ amendment case
The future of controversial so-called clean government Amendment 54 has been fast-tracked by the Colorado Supreme Court. This week the Court directed attorneys to submit records by next Friday, Sept. 4. Court arguments will begin in the fall.
"There's a perceived obligation to get appellate clarity when the voters have adopted a law and it has been declared unconstitutional," said Mark Grueskin, one of the high-powered attorneys who represented plaintiffs fighting the amendment. "There's just added importance to getting the Supreme Court to weigh in and say there is or is not a problem."
Denver high school principal blocked on abstinence-only sex ed
Through the intervention of Denver Public School officials, the Bush-era faith-based plans of Jorge Loera, first-year principal at West High School, have been thwarted....
Anti-torture advocates worry Holder won’t go high enough up the chain
Like many in the intelligence community, Tyler Drumheller, a retired chief of CIA operations in Europe, is waiting to see if his former colleagues will be left holding the bag for the Bush administration.
As early as Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate acts of torture performed by the CIA as part of the Bush administration’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” program.