Denver Post: Politics

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he would prevail over a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he expected to do “very well” against the suit, adding that he had an “absolute right” to make the declaration.

The Denver City Council unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that will underline and expand the authority of the Office of the Independent Monitor, potentially resolving a conflict about the independent agency.

WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020.
“Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MIAMI — President Donald Trump on Monday pleaded with Venezuela’s military to support opposition leader Juan Guaido and issued a dire warning if they continue to stand with President Nicolas Maduro’s government.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Gary Jacobs looks out over the Rio Grande from the deck of the clubhouse at a public golf course in Webb County, Texas. It’s a sunny morning, quiet except for the chirping birds and the thwack of clubs hitting balls.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

EL PASO, Texas — When Donald Trump visited Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s hometown to argue that walling off the southern border makes the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 2020 presidential hopeful was ready.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A day after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency — in an attempt to circumvent Congress and redirect taxpayer money to fund 230 miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border — the designation has been beset with political and legal challenges.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — Let the lawsuits begin.
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency along the southern border Friday and predicted his administration would end up defending it all the way to the Supreme Court.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Before he was Colorado’s governor, before he was Denver’s mayor — even before he was a brewery magnate — John Hickenlooper was a laid-off geologist.
He lost his job with a Colorado oil company in the mid-1980s, after working for about five years in the field he’d gone to college to learn.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Trump administration is sending another large shipment of humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan border in Colombia, for the first time using U.S. military aircraft as it increases pressure on Nicolas Maduro to give up power, according to a State Department email sent to Congress.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share