UPDATE: According to Kopel, Grand County Sheriff Rodney Johnson has now joined the effort.
Colo Sheriffs’ lawsuit against anti-gun laws grows to 55 Sheriffs, with addition of Rodney Johnson of Grand County.
— Dave Kopel (@davekopel) May 17, 2013
Earlier today we reported on 54 County Sheriffs in Colorado who had signed onto a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg’s extreme gun control legislation.
With 64 Sheriffs in Colorado, that left 10 ...
UPDATE: According to Kopel, Grand County Sheriff Rodney Johnson has now joined the effort.
Colo Sheriffs’ lawsuit against anti-gun laws grows to 55 Sheriffs, with addition of Rodney Johnson of Grand County.
— Dave Kopel (@davekopel) May 17, 2013
The Independence Institute, along with 54 of Colorado’s County Sheriffs, has filed suit against the extreme gun control legislation pushed ...
A picture is worth a thousand words. No wonder Chuck E. Cheese killer Nathan Dunlap’s lawyers have tried to shine up the mass murderer’s visual appeal. A couple weeks back they released a video of a kinder, gentler Dunlap (inexplicably laughing) and pleading for the governor to act “humanely”, commuting his death sentence. In the courtroom also, Dunlap dresses the part of reformed wonder boy.
Local media ...
Denver’s Channel 7 investigative reporters recently released an explosive report that Democrat Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has declined to prosecute the majority of sexual assault cases that are brought to his office. According to the report, Morrissey and the office he oversees declines to prosecute 36% of all felonies and 71% of sexual assaults in his jurisdiction. According to the analysis:
“Those rates are substantially higher than the ...
A Chicago-based liberal media group has placed $15,000 worth of ads on the Colorado Springs-area TV station KOAA on behalf of the pro-Senate President John Morse front group, a media tracking source tells the Peak.
The ads were placed for the group “A Whole Lot of People for John Morse” by Chicago-based Adelstein Liston, and are running from ...
When you accuse your opponents of being sex offenders seeking to steal people’s identities, it’s not usually a sign of confidence in your own political position. A new poll by Public Opinion Strategies in Senate President John Morse’s Senate District 11 demonstrates why Morse’s people are going scorched earth against his ...
In what is shaping up to be another unprecedented government power grab under President Obama, Democratic Senator Mark Udall has signed on to a letter volunteering Colorado as one of six Federal Aviation Administration testing sites for drones. As trust in government has been trending near multi-year lows recently, the introduction of these controversial surveillance vehicles ...
Out of the worst legislative session we can remember there are more than a few losers to list. From gun control to driver’s licences for illegal immigrants, left-wing special interests drove an agenda that has been dubbed the ”most liberal ever” by The Durango Herald‘s Joe Hanel.
Jobs legislation? House Speaker Mark Ferrandino told the Denver Business Journal‘s Ed Sealover there wasn’t any. Or rather, everything was a jobs bill, ...
Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner has released the harassing letter sent to a Colorado-based conservative 501c4, identified as the Citizen Awareness Project by CBS4′s Shaun Boyd.
“This document demonstrates the type of burdensome and politically motivated scrutiny placed on conservative groups,” Gardner said in a press release. “This group also had its information illegally leaked to the media, which is an outrageous violation by IRS employees. Those responsible must to ...
Despite liberals attempt to paint the Senate President John Morse recall effort as coming from “out-of-state”, a review of the funding of each side by The Denver Post exposes the pro-Morse forces as the ones dropping dollars into the campaign from outside Colorado.
Where is the money coming from for the anti-Morse side? A local group based right in Morse’s hometown of Colorado Springs.

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