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In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press aired on Sunday, Donald Trump doubled down on two of his main campaign promises: mass deportation and ending birthright citizenship. “You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one,” Kristen Welker asked. “Is that still your plan?” “Yes,” Trump responded, “absolutely.” Welker pushed back, reminding Trump that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause dictates that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” When asked if he would work around the amendment, Trump said, “Well, we’re going to have to get it changed or maybe have to go back to the people.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office violated two state information security policies that contributed to the accidental release of some voting system passwords before this year’s election, according to a third-party investigation released Monday morning. Denver attorney Beth Doherty Quinn found that the office violated one policy, regarding training individuals to ensure nonpublic information isn’t released, as well as another policy about reviewing data to ensure it doesn’t contain secure information before it’s publicly released. Still, the 19-page report broadly absolved Secretary of State Jena Griswold and her staff of wrongdoing.

Gov. Jared Polis struck down a half-dozen bills to close this year’s legislative session. But a revived proposal to fight wage theft — potentially with his backing — shows that the defeats aren’t necessarily permanent. House Majority Leader Monica Duran, a Wheat Ridge Democrat, was one of the prime sponsors of House Bill 1008.

The tobacco and convenience store industries’ attempts to stop the city of Denver from passing a ban on flavored tobacco and nicotine products are largely falling on deaf ears at city hall as the measure moves toward a final vote this month. “To me, it’s big loud voices — but I don’t see the substance,” Denver City Councilwoman Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, one of the measure’s three sponsors, said of the advertising and emails those industries have directed her way. The ban would prohibit the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products within city limits, including flavored offerings for e-cigarettes, vaporizer cartridges and nicotine pouches as well as menthol cigarettes.

Senator Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and a member of the New Jersey Senate representing Central NJ’s 16th Legislative District. He serves as Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee, Vice-Chair of the Higher Education and Labor Committees, and sits on the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers named him as one of the 75 leading contributors to physics education in the U.

I would much rather negotiate with a private insurer than have the government control 100% of my health care.