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Colorado Quietly Repeals Anti-ICE Loyalty Pledge Imposed on Lawyers Following Constitutional Scrutiny
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Colorado Quietly Repeals Anti-ICE Loyalty Pledge Imposed on Lawyers Following Constitutional Scrutiny

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 ...
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If the state can take property without a conviction, no property is safe
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If the state can take property without a conviction, no property is safe

By Rep. Ken DeGraaf | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Civil asset forfeiture began as a narrow exception in colonial maritime law, not as a general tool of domestic policing. In those early admiralty cases, the government often had jurisdiction over the ship or cargo, but not over the owner. The vessel might be in port, but the owner could be overseas, unknown, or beyond the reach of the court. In that circumstance, proceeding against the property itself—an action in rem—was often the only practical way to enforce customs law.  Justice Neil Gorsuch recently highlighted this history in his concurrence in Culley v. Marshall and asked the obvious question: if the government today has full jurisdiction over the person—if it can arrest, charge, and prosecute them directly—...
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Colorado Democrats’ Gun Control Agenda Has Failed. HB26-1021 Is the Reset We Need
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Colorado Democrats’ Gun Control Agenda Has Failed. HB26-1021 Is the Reset We Need

By Reps. Brandi Bradley and Max Brooks | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Editor’s update: House Bill 26-1021 will be heard in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, upon adjournment in HCR 0107. The committee is scheduled between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Readers may listen live here: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00327/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20260217/29/17994#info_ For more than a decade, Colorado Democrats have treated gun control as a political obsession. Not because it works. Not because it reduces crime. But because it expands government control and satisfies national activist donors. Meanwhile, crime has increased, communities feel less safe, and the only people consistently punished are those who follow the law. Hous...
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GOP Lawmaker Forces Tough Admissions in House Judiciary Showdown
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GOP Lawmaker Forces Tough Admissions in House Judiciary Showdown

By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com Yesterday's House Judiciary Committee hearing featured fireworks as Attorney General Pam Bondi, well-prepared and skillfully outmaneuvered House Democrats. She responded with sharp retorts, sparking some intense confrontations.  https://twitter.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/2021709153769558095?s=20 But let’s get to Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), who used the opportunity to obliterate the Biden Justice Department for their years-long campaign of political retribution against their rivals. It was a lightning round that took a knife to the gut of the old Biden DOJ and their corruption: https://twitter.com/overton_news/status/2021684951045824743?s=20 READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT TOWNHALL.COM
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House Republicans Probe Coordinated Climate Lawsuits Targeting US Energy Companies
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House Republicans Probe Coordinated Climate Lawsuits Targeting US Energy Companies

By: Kevin Killough | Just the News The committee is investigating two attorneys involved in key climate cases to see whether they were consulted on materials that were used in a program that instructs judges overseeing climate cases. The House Judiciary Committee is probing connections between two attorneys involved in key climate lawsuits against energy companies and a judicial training project that’s come under fire for allegedly biasing judges against the plaintiffs.  The committee sent letters Wednesday to Roger Worthington, owner of the law firm Worthington and Caron, and David Bookbinder, director of law and policy at the Environmental Integrity Project.  Worthington is the lead attorney for Multnomah County, Oregon, in the county’s lawsui...
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Grieving Dad Tells Congress Why America Must Stop Releasing Repeat Offenders
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Grieving Dad Tells Congress Why America Must Stop Releasing Repeat Offenders

By Jarrett Stepman | Commentary, The Daily Signal “I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents, and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us, please.” Those were the words of Stephen Federico, the father of a 22-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by a man who had faced 40 criminal charges in the years before her murder. He gave his impassioned testimony about the need for keeping more criminals behind bars at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday. Federico’s heartbreaking testimony vividly highlighted one of the clearest reasons America’s Democrat-run cities face a serious crime problem: repeat offenders end up back out on the streets after being given countless chances by...
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Newly Released Report Reveals 274 FBI Agents Deployed to Capitol on Jan. 6
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Newly Released Report Reveals 274 FBI Agents Deployed to Capitol on Jan. 6

By John Solomon and Steven Richards | Just the News Hidden for four years, an after-action report on FBI's involvement in Jan. 6 riot found by Director Patel shows dozens of agents feared that the FBI had become "woke" and "liberally biased." The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to "wokeness" and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years. Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to ...
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Hearing lays groundwork for GOP-led reform after 3-year immigration surge, 500K visa overstays
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Hearing lays groundwork for GOP-led reform after 3-year immigration surge, 500K visa overstays

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing June 25 on visa security and legal immigration pathways, revisiting the Trump administration’s policies and examining how current enforcement gaps could be putting national security at risk. Republican lawmakers and expert witnesses repeatedly pointed to vulnerabilities in the visa system and criticized relaxed vetting protocols. “The purpose of today’s hearing is to determine to what extent our legal immigration system has been exploited, abused, and defrauded,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., “and to recommend measures to assure that legal immigration to the United States is legitimate, honest, fully vetted, and above board.” Jessica Vaughn of the Center for Immigrati...
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Jim Jordan demands file on Afghan national charged with attempting terror attack on election day
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Jim Jordan demands file on Afghan national charged with attempting terror attack on election day

By Henry Rodgers | The Daily Caller House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent letters Tuesday to the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanding information about the Afghan man with reported ties to ISIS who allegedly planned an Election Day terrorist attack in the U.S. The Daily Caller first obtained copies of the letters to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In the letters, Jordan demands the following: Case history documents and information, including, but not limited to, the alien’s immigration history, immigration benefits applications, the alien file (A-file) or consular file (including all consular notes), and immigration detention status and history. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY CALLER
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House Judiciary investigation launched into Iran sending Democrats hacked Trump campaign info
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House Judiciary investigation launched into Iran sending Democrats hacked Trump campaign info

By Katie Pavlich | Townhall House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has officially launched an investigation into hacked materials that were stolen from the Trump campaign by Iran and distributed to Biden -- now Harris -- campaign officials earlier this year. "On September 18, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced that in 'late June and early July,' the Islamic Republic of Iran attempted to interfere with the upcoming presidential election by “sen[ding] unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with the Biden-Harris campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign," Jordan wrote...
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