CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
July 30, 2014 10:42 AM UTC
28 Comments
You admit that Suthers is right but still say he is politically screwed?
I'm glad the voters decide things like that and not anonymous Democrat bloggers.
The word is Democratic.
Honey Badger! In a Landslide!
Upholding state law and getting rogue county clerks to obey the law, how dare he do that? Pols would rather we be a nation without structure or law. Perhaps they should take Howard Dean and Andrew Romanoff up on the idea of relocating to a land where that is practiced. Vlad I am sure could us some more like-minded visitiors. Just don't fly there via Ukraine airspace.
AC, you're becoming more like a Jack Chick tract every day, you know that?
So, when can we expect your diary urging County Sheriffs to enforce the gun legislation that was passed?
They can't enforce it, because it's unenforceable.
Murder laws must be unenforceable too, we have so many… from guns
Total hypocrisy. We're a nation of laws, except when the law offends conservatives. Then the law is something to get around or defy.
Total hypocrisy. We're a nation of laws, except when the law offends liberals. Then the law is something to get around or defy.
LIke your brave Sheriffs?
Dear Other Right-wing Asshole:
See my comment below. So far, everything Hill has done has been lawful. The same applies to Suthers, for that matter, except that (i) he didn't have to pursue an appeal and (ii) he is on the wrong side of history. But I guess someone has to go down in history as the last bigot standing.
Dear Right-wing Asshole:
The legal process worked as it should. Hill's actions were upheld by the district court and the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court did not say that Hill's actions were unlawful; it merely issued a stay until it can consider the matter fully. If she continues to issue licenses to same-sex couples that would be wrong, but nothing she has done so far has been sanctioned by any court.
Sorry, OTD, I have to correcet you. The Boulder County Clerk's name is Hall. Hilary Hall. If you're goin to argue with an idiot (like Moddy) don't give them technicalities to pick at
Two l's in Hillary.
Oops! You're right OTD. I used the masculine spelling. My bad.
I HAVE TO SAY I DON'T THINK a county by county option works, whether the issue is gay marriage or fracking. We should adopt marriage equality asa state and a nation. The sooner this gets to Justice Kennedy, the better.
Thank you. Let the court system work, and obey the law as it stands until it changes. Why is that so hard?
So that's what you'll be saying to the Sheriffs refusing to enforce laws concerning guns, right? They, after all, don't even have the excuse of numerous court decisions declaring those laws to be unconstitutional so they obviously have even less justification for their refusal to respect the law than the County Clerks do. Glad we've got that all cleared up.
What the Constitutional Sheriffs have is the "posse comitatus" Act, which was put in the constitution after the civil war in order to appease southern racist sheriffs, who wanted to be able to lynch and suppress blacks at will post-Reconstruction.
The intent was to keep Federal military personnel (National Guard) from coming in to states to enforce state laws. Like the integration of Southern schools – But LBJ disregarded it and sent in the Guard anyway.
County Sheriffs are saying that Posse Comitatus makes the County Sheriff the ultimate authority, over a State police officer. I don't see that, either.
You legal experts should weigh in, but I see nothing in it that would allow Obama to take anyone's guns away
LBJ didn't disregard posse comitatus. Integration was federal law, and he was fully within his powers to use the Guard to enforce federal law.
You are correct, OF.
Dear Other Right-wing Asshole:
Your implicit claim that Hall was not obeying the law is patently stupid. Since Hall won at the district court and Court of Appeals, she obviously had a very strong claim that she was lawfully issuing marriage licenses to same-sex applicants. Further, the Supreme Court did not say that she had acted unlawfully; it merely stayed her from issuing more same-sex licenses until it could consider the issues.
Plus, the 10th Circuit Court already ruled that Utah's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. That ruling applies to Colorado. And that ruling was never stayed in Colorado by the Circuit Court, even though it applies here.
That's still a pretty weak argument.
The 10th Circuit ruling was stayed, and like many circuit court opinions it only ever directly applied to Utah (though the language in it was clear: any challenge of a similar nature would receive the same result). That's why they issued a separate ruling on Oklahoma's gay marriage ban (also stayed).
Marriage equality is almost inevitable at this point. But legally we haven't jumped through all of the hoops here in Colorado. Hopefully the Colorado Supreme Court gets there before the US Supreme Court. At worst, I suspect given the current state of things that we'll have a nationwide ruling by June 2015.
That was an odd portion of the sentence to emphasize.
John Suthers will take his place in history (along with A.G.s: Sean Reyes of Utah, Greg Abbott,of Texas and Pam Bondi of Florida) right next to Bull Connor and George Wallace for fightng justice to the bitter end. What a proud legacy