Tag: insurrection
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Federal judge orders Englewood woman to explain why Trump removal lawsuit should proceed
A federal judge on Tuesday directed a self-represented plaintiff from Englewood to explain why she should be allowed to seek President Donald Trump’s removal from office on the grounds that he engaged in insurrection. Marcia M. Radin filed a one-page document on Feb. 5, labeled a “grievance,” in which she alleged Trump and Vice President…
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‘It was my duty’: Colorado chief justice speaks out about Trump disqualification vote
Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke haltingly and emotionally on Thursday night about her awareness of the risks she was taking when she joined a Colorado Supreme Court decision last December finding Donald Trump constitutionally disqualified from appearing on the state’s ballot. “I want to emphasize: I did not relish that vote at all. I cast…
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3 Colorado justices shrug off Trump decision, scandal fallout to cruise to retention
Three Colorado Supreme Court justices easily won their retention elections on Tuesday, brushing off a recent controversial decision to disqualify the Republican presidential candidate and disapproval of how the court handled a contracting scandal. Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez, Justice Brian D. Boatright and Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter were poised to secure new 10-year terms,…
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Verdict: Colorado Springs-area resident found guilty on all charges in Capitol breach trial in D.C.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a lengthy deliberation that’s been rare for Capitol breach cases, Falcon resident Rebecca Lavrenz, known on social media as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” was convicted on all four federal misdemeanor charges for her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, protest of the 2020 presidential…
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Trial begins for Falcon woman who says she carried God inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Click here to read the latest story on the verdict for this trial. Ten minutes spent on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, on what she considers a God-directed mission, could cost 71-year-old Falcon resident Rebecca Lavrenz up to a year in prison and fines…
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Q&A with Shannon Stevenson | Colorado’s solicitor general talks about arguing to SCOTUS in Trump case
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a Colorado case with historic implications – specifically, whether Donald Trump is constitutionally disqualified from seeking office for engaging in insurrection as president. In December, the Colorado Supreme Court found Trump to be disqualified, by 4-3, based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump appealed to the nation’s…
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At SCOTUS, Colorado’s Justice Carlos Samour looms in Trump ballot disqualification arguments
During Thursday’s oral arguments before the nation’s highest court about Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to remain on the ballot, the justices explicitly and indirectly channeled the member of Colorado’s Supreme Court who wrote the most impassioned critique of the legal effort to disqualify Trump. Justice Carlos A. Samour Jr., in his dissenting opinion in December,…
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Colorado Republicans call case against Trump ‘unreal,’ Democrats say SCOTUS should bar ‘insurrectionist’
Republicans and Democrats in Colorado expectedly hewed along partisan lines following Thursday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is weighing whether former president Donald Trump should be disqualified from the state ballot for allegedly engaging in an “insurrection” that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. “It would be a…