Colorado turns the first Trump DOJ’s own words against its Second Amendment lawsuits
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
When the Justice Department sued Colorado in May over its large-capacity magazine ban, the state went looking for ammunition of its own. It found it inside DOJ's filing cabinets.
In its federal court filing on June 30, Colorado submitted a motion to dismiss that leverages two memos from Jeff Sessions, the first attorney general in Trump's first term. The state utilizes these documents to contend that the DOJ is attempting to assert an authority that its own former leadership said it should not exercise.
The 2017 memo told department heads that "it is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies." The 2018 memo warned that long-term federal court supervision of state an...