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Supreme Court Affirms Candidates’ Right To Challenge Election Rules
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The Federalist, Approved, National

Supreme Court Affirms Candidates’ Right To Challenge Election Rules

By: Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist ‘Candidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections,’ wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal candidates have standing to challenge rules governing their elections. In Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, the high court affirmed that candidates running for public office “have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless [of] whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns.” “Their interest,” the court determined, “extends to the integrity of the election — and the democratic process ...
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Colorado Prepares to Enforce Semiautomatic Gun Training Law
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, State

Colorado Prepares to Enforce Semiautomatic Gun Training Law

By Scott Weiser | The Denver Gazette Colorado Parks and Wildlife has scheduled a series of virtual and in-person stakeholder meetings beginning Feb. 9, 2026, to explain requirements for a new firearms safety program and gather input from dealers, instructors and sheriffs before the mandate takes effect August 1, 2026. The program, created under Senate Bill 25-003, requires anyone purchasing or transferring certain firearms to obtain a background check, complete an in-person safety course and obtain an eligibility card that must be shown to sign up for the mandatory training. The law applies only to future transactions and exempts existing owners. Upcoming meetings include virtual sessions for firearms dealers and instructors on Feb. 9, followed by an in-person Den...
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El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen Announces Run for Colorado Attorney General
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen Announces Run for Colorado Attorney General

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice District Attorney of El Paso County Michael J. Allen has declared his intention to run for attorney general in Colorado. Allen served in the Navy and is in his second term as district attorney for Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District. His announcement comes as the state grapples with rising auto theft, higher insurance costs, and continued overdose deaths.Allen framed the decision as a gradual one. Allen framed the decision as a gradual one. “It was a long time coming to make the decision,” Allen said. “I’ve had people reaching out to me really starting January of 2025 — both statewide, local folks, and then even national folks — trying to talk me into running.” For Allen, the question was not simp...
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After the pardon: The constitutional question Colorado courts now face
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

After the pardon: The constitutional question Colorado courts now face

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice President Donald Trump’s pardon of Tina Peters did not end her case. It changed it. What now sits before Colorado’s courts is no longer a question of guilt or innocence, nor even whether Peters should remain imprisoned while her appeal moves forward. The unresolved issue is more fundamental than that: whether the state still has authority to proceed in light of a federal pardon. It is the question attorney Peter Ticktin says Colorado can no longer set aside. Federal pardon issued by President Donald Trump for Tina Peters A pardon that altered the legal landscape Ticktin, who represents Peters, said in an interview with RMV that the federal pardon fundamentally changed the legal posture of the case. ...
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The Bill of Rights was written to limit power. One civics lesson explains how.
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

The Bill of Rights was written to limit power. One civics lesson explains how.

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice “I observed… the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer,” Ben Franklin. Bill of Rights Day is often marked with references to free speech, due process and other familiar rights. Less attention is paid to the reason those protections exist at all: to place clear limits on government power. That question sits at the center of a handwritten civics lesson now being shared among homeschool students, one that walks through how the Constitution was designed to restrict government authority, including economic decision-making. Susie Dean, a homeschool civic...
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Boulder Climate Case Risks Imposing Local Agendas on the Entire Nation
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The Federalist, Approved, Commentary, National

Boulder Climate Case Risks Imposing Local Agendas on the Entire Nation

By Christopher Mills | Commentary, The Federalist This week, the U.S. Supreme Court should consider a basic constitutional reality: county officials from Boulder, Colorado, cannot force their preferred climate policies on the rest of the nation. Obvious as it seems, that is what’s at stake in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County, a climate change case the court will weigh for review on Dec. 12. Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers an...
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Justices Take Key Immigration Case on Trump Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship
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Washington Examiner, Approved, National

Justices Take Key Immigration Case on Trump Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship

By Jack Birle | The Washington Examiner The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear arguments in a case challenging President Donald Trump‘s executive order on birthright citizenship later this term. In an order released Friday afternoon, the justices said they would take up for review Trump v. Barbara, a case originally brought in a federal court in New Hampshire by a group of people whose children could be affected by the order. The Justice Department filed petitions to the high court to hear the Barbara case and Trump v. Washington, a challenge brought by Democrat-led states, in September, arguing the justices should rule on the legality of the order. “The government has a compelling interest in en...
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Tina Peters Requests Presidential Pardon as New Evidence Bolsters Her Claims
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Rocky Mountain Voice, National, Top Stories

Tina Peters Requests Presidential Pardon as New Evidence Bolsters Her Claims

By A.L. Goodwin | Guest Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice On December 6, 2025, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters formally submitted an application for a Presidential Pardon to President Donald J. Trump. Her legal team describes the request as both a matter of justice and national security, pointing to newly released evidence and expanding federal investigations that directly corroborate Peters’ original claims. Attorney John Case, who represents Peters, summarized the urgency: “The President has authority under the U.S. Constitution to pardon Tina Peters. Colorado officials continue to persecute Tina in state prison, where her health has deteriorated. The courts refuse to allow Tina release on bond while the Colorado Court of Appeals considers her appeal. So, Tina h...
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Calls Grow For Red States To Challenge SCOTUS Ruling On Schooling For Illegal Aliens
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The Federalist, Approved, Commentary, National

Calls Grow For Red States To Challenge SCOTUS Ruling On Schooling For Illegal Aliens

By: Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist If Republicans play their cards right, they could potentially topple a SCOTUS decision that opened America’s schools to illegal aliens. The culmination of a disastrous 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision granting illegal aliens access to American public schools has seemingly taken center stage in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week. After the Department of Homeland Security revealed Saturday that U.S. immigration officials would be conducting enforcement operations throughout the city, local media began reporting that an unusually high number of students were marked absent from school. According to data in these reports, roughly 30,000 students did not attend Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on Monday. (“Officials initially rep...
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Weiser’s Anti-Trump Agenda Comes at Taxpayer Expense
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Complete Colorado, Approved, State

Weiser’s Anti-Trump Agenda Comes at Taxpayer Expense

By: Rob Natelson | Complete Colorado Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says he favors trashing Colorado’s legislative reapportionment system to get more Democrat members of Congress elected. His statement offers some useful instruction in how, when conservatives make political deals with the left, it usually comes back to bite them. The current reapportionment system resulted from such a deal. It was made only seven years ago and ratified overwhelmingly by the voters. Now Weiser wants to renege. The Colorado background In 2018, Coloradans voted for Amendments Y and Z. Amendment Y transferred the job of drawing congressional districts from the state legislature to an independent commission. Amendment Z did the same for state legislative districts. I ...
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