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Mike Rosen: Honeymoon over for squatters in Colorado
In case you missed it, in the closing days of this year’s Colorado legislative session a long overdue bill was passed and signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper. Titled the “Protecting Homeowners...
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Sloan: Judging experience in the AG race
The Attorney General’s race in Colorado has progressed largely along the issue of experience, pitting a seasoned prosecutor (George Brauchler) against a professor with limited practical courtroom...
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Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter: Life is about choices, Phil Weiser...
Life is full of choices – from where to eat and what to wear, to the company we keep. From a personal and professional standpoint, whom we associate with matters, and it reflects on us. As an elected...
View ArticleVIDEO: Caldara explains why he will not comply with Boulder’s “assault...
Boulder— Jon Caldara, president of the free market think tank Independence Institute*, and a Boulder, Colorado resident, explains in a new video (see below) why he will not comply with an ordinance...
View ArticleVIDEO: Senator Cory Gardner on the federal ‘STATES Act’ legislation
U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) recently sat down with Matt Kibbe from the organization Free the People for a video interview (see below) about the STATES Act, of which Gardner is a lead sponsor....
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Legislation introduced to open police internal affairs files to the public
Denver — For the second year in a row Rep. James Coleman, D-Denver, is sponsoring a bill to compel police agencies to disclose internal affairs investigations. House Bill 19-1119 was introduced on Jan....
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Criminal case dismissed against school district employees for failing to...
ARAPAHOE COUNTY–Differing interpretations of when the statute of limitations clock actually started has led to the dismissal of a criminal case against two Cherry Creek School District employees, and...
View ArticleVIDEO: Boulder gun ban update, what does an ‘assault weapon’ look like?
Boulder— Jon Caldara, president of the free market think tank Independence Institute*, and a Boulder, Colorado resident, has publicly proclaimed that he will not comply with Boulder’s recent gun-ban...
View ArticleVicious dog attack leads to legislative effort requiring sheriffs to take action
CROWLEY COUNTY–A bill to require county sheriffs to enforce Colorado’s dangerous dog law was introduced Jan. 29 in the state House of Representatives by Rep. Kimmi Lewis (R-Kim), in response to a...
View ArticleKopel and Greenlee: Plenty of red flags in Colorado’s ‘extreme risk’...
Editor’s note: The following is an analysis of House Bill 19-1177, which would create in Colorado an “Extreme Risk Protection Order” process for the confiscation of firearms, more commonly known as a...
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Natelson: Red Flag bills latest assault on Bill of Rights
“Progressives” are using Red Flag bills as weapons in their war on the Bill of Rights. Red Flag bills are measures authorizing confiscation of firearms, often without notice or opportunity to be heard....
View ArticleKopel: Red Flag bill guts due process, unnecessarily threatens police and...
The “Red Flag” bill passed by the Colorado House has an effective date of January 1, 2020. But in some counties, the date might as well be “never,” since a growing number of counties and sheriffs’...
View ArticleVIDEO: 18th Judicial DA George Brauchler pans “Red Flag” bill
Last year, 18th Judicial District DA George Braucher gave fairly nuanced support to an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) bill, more commonly known as a “Red Flag” law. That effort failed. A...
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Rosen: Denver Initiative 300 a solution worse than the problem
An activist group called Denver Homeless Out Loud managed to gather 9,000 petition signatures to get Initiative 300 on Denver’s ballot in May. If voters approve this, it would repeal a sensible...
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Kaminsky: Politicians disregard Constitution with “Red Flag” bill
Former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson warned us that “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” However, a fundamental precept of law and regulation in the United States is that the government,...
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Kopel: California’s magazine confiscation law permanently enjoined by...
California’s statute to confiscate all magazines over 10 rounds has been permanently enjoined by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. The opinion was written by...
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Despite federal approval, selling hemp and CBD remains legally risky
WASHINGTON DC–At the end of last year, Congress passed a farm bill that legalized hemp, defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3 percent THC by weight, and its derivatives, including cannibidiol...
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Caldara: 20 years after Columbine our kids are still unprotected
The other Tuesday night just before midnight my phone woke me. My school district texted, emailed and auto-called to inform me school, which was to start in eight hours, would be canceled due to a...
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Sullum: ‘Red Flag’ law erodes civil liberties based on future behavior
In April, Colorado became the 15th state to enact a “red flag” law that authorizes court orders forbidding gun possession by people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The new law, which has drawn...
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Legal challenge to Red Flag law to be filed in District Court
DENVER–The controversial Red Flag bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis April 12 allowing confiscation of firearms from persons deemed a “substantial risk” to themselves or others is being...
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