Colorado Religious Leaders Back Same-sex Marriage Ballot Measure

Sep 18, 2024 | In November, Coloradans will be asked to remove a same-sex marriage ban from the state constitution, and dozens of faith leaders in Colorado have announced they support the repeal. …

Ramaswamy Vows Exit from Colorado GOP Ballot amid Trump Exclusion Verdict | Oneindia News

Dec 20, 2023 | US Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy vows to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump gains ballot access, urging DeSantis, Christie, and Haley to do likewise. Failure to comply suggests endorsement of an alleged illegal move, feared to bring dire consequences to the nation.

The Colorado ruling is great and effective. It has killed two birds with one stone! There’s hope that America will regain its sanity after all! – © Mark Alexander

The Lincoln Project: Waiting

Dec 20, 2023 | If you're in line to be on the ballot in Colorado, stay in line I guess...

Maddow: Trump Getting Kicked Off Colorado Ballot 'A Real Surprise'

Dec 20, 2023 | Donald Trump is disqualified from being president under the 14th Amendment, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled for its state, removing Trump from the Colorado 2024 GOP primary ballot. On this ruling going to the Supreme Court, Rachel Maddow tells Joy Reid, "I don't think this is the way that Donald Trump's political career ends because of what we know about this iteration of the United States Supreme Court.”

Donald Trump Speaks Following Removal from Colorado Presidential Ballot | BBC News

Dec 20, 2023 | Former US President Donald Trump has said that he considers indictments against him "a badge of honour".

Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Iowa, shortly after the state of Colorado's supreme court voted in favour of removing him from the 2024 presidential ballot.

The court ruled 4-3 to remove Trump, citing his involvement in the 6 January insurrection in 2021.

The Colorado Supreme Court ruling means Donald Trump may be unable to run for re-election in the state next year.

Trump Is Disqualified From 2024 Ballot, Colorado Court Says in Explosive Ruling

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The decision, the first by a court to find that Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again because he engaged in insurrection, is likely to put a monumental case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Durham, N.H., last week. His political opponents have sought to keep him off the 2024 presidential ballot by citing the 14th Amendment. | Doug Mills/The New York Times
Colorado’s top court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified from holding office again because he engaged in insurrection with his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, an explosive ruling that is likely to put the basic contours of the 2024 election in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Colorado Supreme Court was the first in the nation to find that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — which disqualifies people who engage in insurrection against the Constitution after taking an oath to support it — applies to Mr. Trump, an argument that his opponents have been making around the country.

The ruling directs the Colorado secretary of state to exclude Mr. Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary ballot. It does not address the general election.

“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” a four-justice majority wrote, with three justices dissenting. “We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.” » | Maggie Astor | Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Colorado Ruling Knocks Trump Off Ballot: What It Means, What Happens Next: The challengers who sought to disqualify Donald J. Trump prevailed on every legal issue, but the case is almost certainly headed for the Supreme Court, where they would have to do so again. »

McConnell and Other Senate Republicans Criticize Trump’s Talk on Immigrants: The minority leader took an oblique swipe at Donald Trump’s rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood” of the country, but others like Senator Tommy Tuberville defended him. »

Trump, Attacked for Echoing Hitler, Says He Never Read ‘Mein Kampf’: The former president’s comments on migrants have been widely criticized as racist and xenophobic. | Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” rebuffing criticism that the language echoed Adolf Hitler by insisting that he had never read the Nazi dictator’s autobiographical manifesto. »

Trump darf nicht bei Vorwahlen in Colorado antreten: Das Oberste Gericht von Colorado schließt den ehemaligen Präsidenten Donald Trump wegen des Sturms auf das Kapitol von der Präsidentschaftsvorwahl in dem Bundesstaat aus. Nun muss der Supreme Court in Washington entscheiden. »

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Marries Husband in Historic First for Nation

Polis wed his longtime partner Wednesday.
ADVOCATE: On Wednesday, Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis married his longtime partner Marlon Reis in a small ceremony. The event is the first same-sex wedding of a sitting United States governor.

"The greatest lesson we have learned over the past 18 months is that life as we know it can change in an instant," Polis wrote to his Governor of Jared Polis Twitter account. The 18 months is likely a reference to the ongoing global pandemic. "We are thankful for the opportunity to celebrate our life together as a married couple. » | Mikelle Street | Thursday, September 16, 2021

First openly gay person elected governor in US history marries partner in beautiful ceremony »

In Narrow Ruling, Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Refused Cake to Same-Sex Couple

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his religious opposition. In a narrow 7-2 decision, the justices faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the claims brought against baker Jack Phillips, saying the commission had shown a hostility to religion. Though the case pitted claims of religious freedom against the fight for gay rights, the ruling stopped short of setting a major precedent on whether businesses can deny people services because of their sexual orientation. For more, we speak with Ria Tabacco Mar, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project and counsel of record for Charlie Craig and David Mullins in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

Did Pot Legalization Do More Harm Than Good In Colorado?

Apr. 06, 2014 - 3:58 - Increase in violence, black market

Controversy Puts Christmas Donation Program On Hold

Is the Colorado school program a violation of the separation of church and state?

Rocky Relationship: Partisan Politics Push Rural Colorado to Vote on Secession

here's plenty of independent spirit in the United States too. Parts of Colorado will vote on Tuesday on whether to break away from the rest of the state. Marina Portanya has been to find out why.

Head of Colorado’s Prisons Is Fatally Shot at Home
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The head of Colorado’s Department of Corrections was fatally shot Tuesday night as he opened the front door of his home, the authorities said, hours before Gov. John W. Hickenlooper was scheduled to sign into law a series of restrictive gun control measures.

The department’s executive director, Tom Clements, 58, lived with his family in Monument, near Colorado Springs in central Colorado, the authorities said. The police have not identified a suspect. » | Timothy Williams | Wednesday, March 20, 2013

US Election: America Goes Liberal with Gay Marriage, Abortion and Cannabis Votes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: US states backed legalising marijuana for recreational use, allowing gay marriage and rejected a call to ban public funding for abortions, in a swathe of state-wide ballots Tuesday.

The generally liberal moves were decided among more than 170 ballot initiatives and referendums held across the country, as it re-elected Democratic President Barack Obama for four more years.

Mr Obama came out in favor of gay marriage months before the election which pitted him against Republican rival Mitt Romney, who insists that marriage should be reserved for a relationship between a man and a woman.

During his first four-year term Mr Obama had also fulfilled a pledge to repeal the controversial Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) law banning openly gay servicemen and women from serving in the US military.


Three states voted Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage, including Maine - which voted in a referendum against it in 2009, but reversed that decision with 54 percent in favor to 46 percent against.

Washington state and Maryland also appeared set to approve the move, which had already been passed by state lawmakers. Both states voted 52-48 percent in favor, according to CNN projections based on partial results. » Source: AFP | Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Three US States Poised to Legalise Cannabis and Defy 'War on Drugs'

THE OBSERVER: Washington, Oregon and Colorado set to allow recreational use

Three US states are set to legalise recreational cannabis use this week in votes that could have major implications for the country's war on drugs.

Alongside their choice for president, residents of Washington, Oregon and Colorado – a swing state – will be asked on Tuesday whether they want to decriminalise cannabis.

If the measures are passed, adults over 21 would be able to possess, distribute and use small amounts. Cannabis for authorised medical use is already permitted and regulated by each state, even though it is against federal law.

Support is particularly strong in Washington and Colorado, but a "yes" vote in any of the states would be interpreted by the Department of Justice as an act of defiance against the federal government's war on drugs – the national law enforcement programme that spends $44bn a year struggling to stem the tide of illegal drugs in the US.

In June 2011, however, the Global Commission on Drug Policy declared that the war on drugs had failed.

In a swing state such as Colorado, putting the liberal measure on the ballot could even help to keep the battleground state – narrowly won for Barack Obama in 2008 – on the president's side. Obama has taken a soft line on medical cannabis use. » | Joanna Walters | Saturday, November 03, 2012

My comment:

Absurd! For a country such as the USA which takes such a harsh line on smoking cigarettes, this is a ridiculous move. Cigarettes, whilst they may not be harmless, are certainly not in the same health-risk league as drugs, soft or hard. This is a retrograde step too far. The US will yet come to rue the day they legalised drugs. The Americans are going bonkers! – © Mark

14 Dead, 50 Wounded in Shooting at Colorado Theater, Police Chief Says

CNN: A heavily armed gunman killed at least 14 people and wounded 50 more during an early Friday morning screening of the new Batman movie at an Aurora, Colorado, theater, police Chief Dan Oates told reporters.

Police arrested a man believed to be the shooter in a rear parking lot of the theater, Frank Fania, a police spokesman, told CNN. The suspect was not immediately identified, though Fania said he was believed to be in his early 20s.

"He did not resist. He did not put up a fight," Fania said. Police seized a rifle and a handgun from the suspect, and another gun was found in the theater, he said. » | Chelsea J. Carter, CNN | Friday, July 20, 2012

CNN: Witnesses recall chaos after gunman bursts into theatre: The first witness accounts to surface from a deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado, painted a surreal picture of what happened inside Theater 9 of Century Aurora movie theater. » | Mariano Castillo, CNN | Friday, July 20, 2012

Three Afghans Held over US 'Plot'
BBC: Three men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to launch an attack in the United States, the US Justice Department says.

Two Afghan-born men, a father and son, were arrested in Denver, Colorado.

A third man, also from Afghanistan, was later detained in New York, the department said.

The men are accused of making false statements related to "a matter involving international and domestic terrorism", the statement said.

The FBI was investigating several people "in the United States, Pakistan and elsewhere, relating to a plot to detonate improvised explosive devices in the United States", the Justice Department said in court documents related to the arrests.

US media have reported that the investigation was focusing on a possible plan to attack a public area in New York.

David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security, said the arrests were part of "an ongoing and fast-paced investigation".

"It is important to note that we have no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack," AFP news agency quoted him as saying. >>> | Sunday, September 20, 2009

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