What The Rioters, And Their Apologists, Have Squandered

Several Republican candidates vying to represent Colorado’s mostly rural 4th Congressional District went hard after U. S. Rep. Lauren Boebert during a televised debate Thursday night, accusing her of accomplishing little during her more than three years in Congress and raising the question of whether she can prevail against a Democrat in November if nominated. “You have passed nothing,” state Rep.

Former President Donald Trump, who is also the presumptive Republican nominee this November, was convicted of 34 felonies Thursday afternoon, drawing an eruption of reaction from some of Colorado’s political leaders. Here’s a roundup of some of their statements: Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, in a post on social media: “No one is above the law.

Colorado lawmakers continue to add protections for vehicle owners who have their cars towed. HB24-1051, signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday, prohibits towers from patrolling private lots, looking for infractions. The law also forbids property owners from using third-party companies to authorize their tows — a direct shot at Wyatts Towing, the state’s largest towing operator. In fact, much of the bill — and previous legislation — is directed at Wyatts, which conducts a commanding share of the state’s towing business.

Donald Trump has been in a war with accountability his entire adult life, and accountability has usually lost. In a New York City courtroom on Thursday, accountability triumphed, when a jury of his fellow citizens found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to cover up his hush-money/election-interference payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators a day after Alito separately wrote them and House members to reject their demands that he recuse himself from major Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and the Jan.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. Jurors convicted Trump on all 34 counts after deliberating for 9.5 hours.