Tag Archives: Colorado

Trump: I Never Swore To “Support” The Constitution

NBC News reports: Among the points backing Donald Trump’s argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t disqualify him from office is one that, at first glance, is a mix of laughable and disturbing: He never took an oath to “support” the Constitution. Why would the former president emphasize such a thing? That’s because Section 3 of the amendment disqualifies insurrectionists who …

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Appeal Filed To CO Supreme Court In Trump Ballot Case

The watchdog group CREW reports: The six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters who challenged Donald Trump’s eligibility to be on the ballot following his actions on January 6th last night filed an appeal with the Colorado Supreme Court challenging the judge’s rulings that the president is not an “officer of the United States” and that the president’s oath to “preserve, …

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Colorado Judge Rejects Bid To Ax Trump From Ballot

CNN reports: A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on the claim that he is constitutionally barred from office because of the January 6 insurrection. The major decision issued Friday by Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace comes after judges in Minnesota and Michigan also refused to remove …

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Indicted QAnon Former CO Clerk Sues Merrick Garland

Law & Crime reports: A former Republican clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, indicted in 2022 for official misconduct connected to her ill-fated attempt to prove that Dominion Voting Systems and its electronic voting machines stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in federal court against state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, claiming she’s being …

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Former Trump Spox Testifies It Was “Hysterical” To Watch Capitol Rioter Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s Lectern

Mediaite reports: Ex-Trump aide Katrina Pierson testified that that it was “hysterical” to see former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) lectern stolen during the January 6 Capitol riot at a court hearing on Trump’s ballot eligibility in Colorado. Pierson served as spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign in 2016 and as a senior advisor in 2020. Pierson was confronted over a text she …

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Scamvangelical Posts Candidates For 30 School Boards

Religion News Service reports: In 2021, Andrew Wommack told his followers to “take over” Woodland Park, a mountain town of 8,000 near Colorado Springs. The televangelist and Charis Bible College founder had been saying for years that “the time has come” for Christians to stop focusing only on their faith and start working to gain political influence. “We have enough …

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Cultist Kash Patel Testifies In Colorado Ballot Case

The Hill reports: Former Trump administration aide Kash Patel on Wednesday denied claims that President Trump chose not to call up the National Guard during the Jan. 6 attacks or delayed efforts to approve their deployments in testimony he provided in the former president’s 14th Amendment case in Colorado. Patel, who was the chief of staff to acting Defense Secretary …

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Experts Tie Trump To Extremists In Colorado Ballot Case

The Hill reports: The attorneys attempting to paint former President Trump as an insurrectionist in order to get him banned from the ballot in Colorado in 2024 focused their case Tuesday on signals he sent to extremist groups who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Chapman University professor Pete Simi, who studies political violence and extremism, argued that Trump cultivated …

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Would-Be Mass Shooter Kills Himself At CO Theme Park

The Associated Press reports: A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday. The 20-year-old man was found dead in a bathroom at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park by a maintenance crew on Saturday morning before it opened to the public, apparently entering the park …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trial Begins In Trump Colorado Ballot Case

The Associated Press reports: A weeklong hearing on one lawsuit to bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado begins Monday, while on Thursday oral arguments are scheduled before the Minnesota Supreme Court on an effort to kick the Republican former president off the ballot in that state. Whether the judges keep Trump on the ballot or boot him, their rulings …

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TOMORROW: Trump’s 2024 Colorado Ballot Trial Begins

CNN reports: A trial to determine whether the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” applies to former President Donald Trump is set to begin Monday in Denver, a historic but likely long-shot case that could block him from Colorado’s presidential ballot in 2024. The challengers sued Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. They want a court order blocking Griswold from putting Trump’s …

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Ellis Faces Disbarment In Colorado After Conviction

Colorado Newsline reports: Jenna Ellis, the lawyer who represented former President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election, is under investigation by the state office that oversees attorney conduct in Colorado. On Tuesday she pleaded guilty in Fulton County, Georgia, to a felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. A criminal conviction obliges a …

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Trump Loses Final Bid To Dismiss Colorado Ballot Suit

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has lost his final bid to stop a Colorado lawsuit that could see him kicked off the ballot for the 2024 presidential election. A judge in the state has ruled that the lawsuit brought to block the one-term president from the ballot next year can go ahead next week. Mr Trump had asked for the …

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Colorado’s Club Q To Reopen In New Location [VIDEO]

Colorado Springs’ ABC affiliate reports: It has been nearly a year since the Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs that left 5 people dead and injured over a dozen. While Club Q officials initially stated that they were going to remodel their original building, they have now decided they’re moving to a new location, the Satellite Hotel in Southern …

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Trump Loses Again In Colorado 2024 Ballot Battle

CNN reports: A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who …

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Colorado Youth Pastor Guilty On Grooming Charges

Colorado Springs’ CBS affiliate reports: A former youth pastor is now staring down prison time after he was found guilty of sexually exploiting a child. As Fountain police reported last year, Jeffrey Williams was arrested in November of last year for allegedly sending sexually explicit material to one of the kids who attended his youth group. He was booked into …

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Biden Calls Off CO Trip For Meetings On Israel-Hamas

CNN reports: The White House on Monday announced President Joe Biden is scrapping a planned trip to Colorado just hours before he was set to depart, so he can instead hold meetings with his national security team as Israel’s war with Hamas appears set to escalate. Discussions are underway for a possible Biden visit to the Middle East after Israeli …

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Trump Loses Bid To Dismiss Colorado Ballot Challenge

Law & Crime reports: At least one lawsuit seeking to kick Donald Trump off of the 2024 ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is speeding towards a late October trial after a state judge rejected the former president’s free speech arguments and refused to grant his “special motion to dismiss” on Thursday. Anti-SLAPP suit laws, the judge …

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Trump: Insurrection Clause Doesn’t Apply To Presidents

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump this week argued that the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause does not and cannot apply to a president, or someone running for president, of the United States. “Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit someone from running for office—it prohibits someone from holding office, and even then, only if Congress chooses …

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Sailor Earns Heroism Medal For Actions During Club Q Mass Shooting, Says “I Wanted To Protect” My People

The Navy Times reports: A Navy sailor who intervened to halt a shooting at a Colorado nightclub in 2022 received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal on Thursday. Information Technician 2nd Class Thomas James and Army veteran Rich Fierro both confronted an assailant who began firing a high-powered rifle at an LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, on Nov. 19, 2022, according …

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