Jesse Paul

An amendment to Senate Bill 3 would give sheriffs broad power to deny an application to buy certain semiautomatic guns that accept detachable magazines if they have a "reasonable belief that documented previous behavior by the applicant makes it likely the applicant will present a danger to themself or others"

The legislature planned to axe the Colorado Youth Advisory Council to save $50,000 annually amid a tight state budget

House Bill 1138 would eliminate an exemption allowing courtroom discussion of a sexual assault victim’s prior sexual activity when it involved the defendant

A top Justice Department lawyer wrote Monday that the “review will include an evaluation of … whether the case was ‘oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives’”

The Democrat has been in the U.S. Senate since 2009

Duran is a graduate of the University of Colorado Law School. She worked as a lawyer for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union, where her father was the longtime president.

The Democratic state representative from Arvada was first elected to the legislature in 2018. She would be 2nd transgender statewide-elected official in US.

As Boulder County’s top prosecutor, Dougherty led the prosecution of the man accused in the 2021 King Sooper’s mass shooting. His office also helmed the probe into the cause of the Marshall fire.

Senate Bill 3 passed on a 19-15 vote, with three Democrats — Sens. Nick Hinrichsen, Tony Exum and Marc Snyder — joining all of the Republicans in the chamber in voting against the measure

The announcement came just before the Senate Ethics Committee, which was reviewing the complaint lodged against Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, revealed Tuesday that the senator had submitted at least one fabricated letter of support sent to the panel that purported to be from a former aide