Diana DeGette faces Valdamar Archuleta in 1st Congressional District

Diana DeGette faces Valdamar Archuleta in 1st Congressional District

Valdamar Archuleta built the platform for his long-shot run against U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette to represent Denver in Congress in part on what voters told him they cared about. The first plank of what the Republican hopeful calls his “commitment to Denver” is focused on his strategies for reducing the cost of living — specifically … Read more

Abortion in presidential race and on Colorado ballot in the election

Abortion in presidential race and on Colorado ballot in the election

Abortion is a hot topic in the November election at multiple levels, but particularly on the Colorado ballot, which features Amendment 79 — a proposed change that would enshrine the state’s abortion protections in the state constitution. The fate of abortion access is currently determined by the states following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. … Read more

US Supreme Court declines to pause EPA power plant emissions rule

US Supreme Court declines to pause EPA power plant emissions rule

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to put on hold a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants at the request of numerous states and industry groups in another major challenge to President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change. The justices denied emergency requests by West Virginia, Indiana … Read more

Amendment J would repeal Colorado’s defunct ban on same-sex marriage

Amendment J would repeal Colorado’s defunct ban on same-sex marriage

Amendment J would protect same-sex marriages in Colorado by repealing the state constitution’s now-defunct definition — which recognizes only unions between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriages were legalized nationwide in 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. Colorado was already issuing gay marriage licenses the prior year, … Read more

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Talks Ethics, Presidential Immunity in First Broadcast Interview Since Confirmation

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Talks Ethics, Presidential Immunity in First Broadcast Interview Since Confirmation

In her first broadcast interview since joining the nation’s highest court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, an enforceable code of ethics for her and her colleagues, and how the last two years on the bench have gone as the first ever Black woman to serve as a United States Supreme … Read more

Biden unveils plan for Supreme Court changes: term limits, ethics code

Biden unveils plan for Supreme Court changes: term limits, ethics code

By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He’s also pressing lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity. The White House on Monday detailed … Read more

Supreme Court keeps hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms

Supreme Court keeps hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The justices returned the cases to lower courts in challenges from trade associations for the companies. While the details vary, both … Read more

US Supreme Court to weigh in on flavored e-cigarette products

US Supreme Court to weigh in on flavored e-cigarette products

WASHINGTON —  The U.S. Supreme Court took up an e-cigarette case Tuesday, weighing whether the Food and Drug Administration wrongly blocked the marketing of sweet, flavored products amid a surge in vaping by young people. Vaping companies argue the FDA unfairly denied more than a million applications to market fruit or candy flavored versions of … Read more

What to know about bump stocks and the Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the gun accessory

What to know about bump stocks and the Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the gun accessory

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a ban on bump stocks, the gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern American history — a Las Vegas massacre that killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. The court’s conservative majority said Friday that then-President Donald Trump’s administration overstepped its authority with the … Read more

Colorado abortion rights ballot initiative qualifies for ballot

Colorado abortion rights ballot initiative qualifies for ballot

Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered enough signatures. Advocates for the measure turned in 159,930 valid signatures last month — more than enough to place the question on the ballot, … Read more