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Supreme Court to weigh legality of 2022 Biden Administration’s ghost guns rule
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Supreme Court to weigh legality of 2022 Biden Administration’s ghost guns rule

By Melissa Quinn | CBS Colorado The Supreme Court will convene Tuesday to consider a challenge to the Biden administration's efforts to regulate untraceable firearms known as ghost guns, as major American cities report the measure seems to have caused a reduction in the use of these weapons within their borders. The court fight involves a 2022 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that sought to ensure the difficult-to-trace weapons known as ghost guns are subject to the same requirements as commercial firearms sales. The issue before the justices is not whether Second Amendment rights were violated, but rather if the Biden administration went too far when it issued the rule. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear case on elephants’ rights, captivity at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear case on elephants’ rights, captivity at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

By Michael Abeyta | CBS Colorado The Colorado Supreme Court will soon decide whether animals have bodily liberty and whether a "next friend" can file a lawsuit on their behalf. A lawsuit filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project will be heard by the court on Oct. 24. "Next friend" refers to a person or organization who represents another party in court. "I was just there yesterday. It's such a small exhibit on the side of the mountain," said Courtney Fern of the NhRP. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Albertsons brand would no longer exist in Colorado after merger with Kroger
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Albertsons brand would no longer exist in Colorado after merger with Kroger

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun As week two of the State of Colorado v. Kroger trial begins Tuesday (Monday is a state holiday), last week’s testimony gave onlookers a peek behind the corporate grocery curtain in Colorado. If the merger moves forward, Albertsons would no longer exist in Colorado, as it hands most of its local stores, which include mostly Safeways, to a little-known grocer and food distributor called C&S Wholesale Grocers in New Hampshire. Lawyers with the state Attorney General’s Office questioned whether the small company with a spotty history managing acquisitions can handle the $2.9 billion divestiture. But C&S, whose chairman also cofounded Symbotic, a warehouse robotics company, has big plans to invest in the stores, lower prices and grow overnight f...
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[UPDATED] Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters given 9-year sentence by judge
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[UPDATED] Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters given 9-year sentence by judge

By Lindy Browning | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice Judge Matthew Barrett has sentenced Tina Peters, once the Mesa County clerk and recorder, to serve eight and a half years in prison with the Department of Corrections, and six months in the Mesa County Jail as a result of being found guilty on various election charges related to her former capacity. In a scathing rebuke of her defiant behavior after a guilty conviction, Barrett listed all the reasons that probation was not a possibility for Peters: “You are no hero… Yes, you are a charlatan… Incarceration is appropriate when a person is a danger to us all, by sword or by pen,” he said from the bench. Peters' attorney, Michael Edministor, asked the judge to consider a probated sentence, considering his client had exhibited a his...
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Support Amendment I: Constitutional bail exception [of] first-degree murder
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Support Amendment I: Constitutional bail exception [of] first-degree murder

By Editorial Board | Editorial, Rocky Mountain Voice Ballot language: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado Constitution concerning creating an exception to the right to bail for cases of murder in the first-degree when proof is evident or presumption is great? How it reached the ballot: House Continuing Resolution 24-1002, supported by a 59-5 vote of the House and 35-0 vote of the Senate. Not only did the bipartisan measure carry unanimous support in the Senate, but it also was sponsored by almost every member. The measure was opposed in the House by the most extreme, far-left Democrats. Background: The authors of the measure seek to prevent those charged with first-degree murder from being eligible for bail "if proof is evident or presumption is great." When bail is grante...
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Federal prosecutors urge indefinite delay in second Trump assassination attempt case
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Federal prosecutors urge indefinite delay in second Trump assassination attempt case

By Misty Severi | Just The News Federal prosecutors on Wednesday requested the trial of former President Donald Trump's suspected shooter Ryan Wesley Routh be indefinitely delayed, because of a massive amount of evidence they've uncovered in the past two weeks. Routh allegedly attempted to assassinate Trump last month at his resort in Florida, but the plot was foiled by Secret Service agents. Routh has been charged with attempted assassination, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and assaulting a federal officer. He has pleaded not guilty. The prosecutors argued in a court filing on Wednesday that new details in the case have emerged, which have resulted in more than 100 outstanding subpoena returns, thousands of videos to review, and the sei...
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In Colorado case, Kroger and Albertson’s say competition is Walmart, Costco and Amazon
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In Colorado case, Kroger and Albertson’s say competition is Walmart, Costco and Amazon

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun About two weeks before the Federal Trade Commission sued to block Kroger Company’s proposed $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies Inc. in late February, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office filed an antitrust lawsuit of its own. The state’s antitrust trial began Monday morning in Denver District Court, room 414, as attorney Arthur Biller with the AG’s Office laid out how the merger threatens to increase grocery prices, reduce competition and impact the number of grocery workers and supermarkets, especially in the more rural parts of the state. He called Kroger “a monopolist of supermarkets” because it searches for “no-comp or low-comp stores,” or stores with little to no competition. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORA...
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe joins sports betting lawsuit against Colorado
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe joins sports betting lawsuit against Colorado

By Eric Young | The Gazette Another Colorado tribe has joined a lawsuit against the state over access to online sports gambling.  An amended complaint filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado added the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against the state by the Southern Ute Tribe. The complaint alleges that both tribes have been "unfairly" denied by the Colorado Department of Revenue from engaging in online sports betting after the passage of Proposition DD in 2019, which legalized it in the state. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Jack Smith lays out 2020 election case against Trump in newly unsealed filing
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Jack Smith lays out 2020 election case against Trump in newly unsealed filing

By Kaelan Deese | Washington Examiner Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday provided additional details on former President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, offering a plan to disprove what he called Trump’s “false claims” about election fraud and fight against the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. The 165-page motion, unsealed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, includes new revelations about plans by a Trump campaign employee and alleged co-conspirator to incite chaos at a ballot-processing center in Detroit. According to one section of the lengthy filing, a 2020 Trump campaign employee allegedly aimed to disrupt operations at Detroit’s TCF Center, a key site for vote counting in Michigan. READ THE FULL STORY ...
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Colorado lawsuit attempting to block Kroger, Albertsons merger will begin next week
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Colorado lawsuit attempting to block Kroger, Albertsons merger will begin next week

By Gabrielle Franklin | Fox 31 News Colorado’s lawsuit against the parent companies of King Soopers and Safeway is set to begin next week. Before that happens, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser briefed the public about the case. Several other lawsuits surrounding the merger are being heard across the U.S., but Weiser said Colorado’s case is a little different from the rest. “In July, a district court judge ruled that the merger had a reasonable probability of violating the law here in Colorado — the Colorado Antitrust Act. That ruling put a temporary pause on the merger. We’re now prepared for what we believe will be the case that will end this merger and will prevent it from harming Coloradans,” said Weiser during a news conference Thursday. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 N...
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