Colorado sues over Trump election rules tied to homeland security grants
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
Colorado joined 24 other states and the District of Columbia on Thursday in suing the Trump administration over new rules that withhold a fifth of the state's counterterrorism grant money unless Colorado shows it meets five federal election requirements.
One of the five requirements asks Colorado to plan a change state rules already require.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, where judges ruled against DHS in two similar grant disputes last year. One of those decisions is on appeal.
Colorado sued DHS, FEMA, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Robert J. Fenton, the senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.
"We're suing again, and we'll win again, because the administrat...