By Greg Piper | Just the News
Centennial State quietly eliminates anti-ICE loyalty oath it imposed on lawyers ahead of promised lawsuit. Justice Department still defending constitutionality of settlement gag orders even after SEC, CFTC disavow them.
Colorado imposed a loyalty oath on lawyers as a condition of access to the state’s court system, pledging they would not assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some federal agencies required defendants to accept gag orders as a condition of civil settlements, pledging they would not question the government’s case, no matter how weak they thought it.
These speech mandates, some going back more than 50 years, have come crashing down in recent weeks as The Centennial State opts against further cementing its reputation as a First Amendment flouter and the second Trump administration seeks to distinguish itself from its predecessors – including Trump I – as a paragon of prosecutorial propriety.
Buried in immigrant-protection legislation (HB 26-1276) signed into law last week is a provision that nixes SB 25-276’s requirement, only implemented two months ago, that lawyers swear “under penalty of perjury” they won’t use “nonpublic” information from the court system to help federal immigration enforcement.
The now-rescinded law had provoked outrage from some lawyers who faced the prompt when they tried to log in to the e-filing system, as well as legal scrutiny from watchdogs including Judicial Watch and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which told Just the News it had been “gearing up to sue” Colorado if it didn’t reverse course.
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