Brauchler Warns Colorado’s Legion Of Doom Is Reshaping Justice

By George Brauchler | Commentary, The Denver Gazette

As a kid growing up in Colorado, I loved watching the animated series The Super Friends, who fought against evil and for good as a part of the Justice League. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and more. They were opposed by the Legion of Doom and its cast of villains, always fighting for wrong over right.  

Colorado has its own Legion of Doom under our Gold Dome in Denver, and you need look no further than how they have wielded their legislative superpowers to know who leads them. In the DC universe, it is Lex Luther and Sinestro. In the General Assembly, it is Democratic state Sens. Mike Weissman and Julie Gonzales. 

No single individual in Colorado has done more to put convicted murderers back into our communities than Weissman, of Aurora, who represents Senate District 28. Over a period of years, both as a member of the state House and Senate, Weissman has methodically and relentlessly worked to return Colorado to the failed 1970s-style policies that make the sentence for murder 20 years, and then the killers go free. 

Beginning in 2019, then-Rep. Weissman sponsored legislation to make felony murder a parole-eligible crime. Felony murder occurs when a criminal chooses to engage in a specific type of felony that carries an extremely high risk of death, like aggravated (armed) robbery. Prior to Weissman’s “killers need hugs too” legislation, conviction at trial for such a crime would be punished with a life sentence. No more. Now, armed robbers — even repeated armed robbers who kill one, two or more innocent victims — will go to prison with the hope that Colorado’s deliberately broken and opaque sentencing scheme will provide a path back into our neighborhoods. 

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