Rachel Suh sued to end Colorado’s caucus system excluding 1.97 million unaffiliated voters. February 25 hearing comes six days before caucuses begin. Attorney General Weiser, running for Governor through caucuses, filed the Motion to Dismiss. Secretary Griswold, the defendant, runs for Attorney General through the same system.
Three days after a Court of Appeals panel questioned Tina Peters’ sentence, the state released 10 seconds showing her hands on another inmate’s neck. CDOC refused footage from inside the closet where her team says the encounter began. Her attorneys say she was attacked and injured. CDOC says no one was injured.
Initiative #95 qualified requiring law enforcement to notify DHS within 72 hours when charging someone with unverified immigration status who has prior felonies or faces violent crime charges. Current law threatens deputies with $50,000 fines. Attorney General Weiser sued Mesa County Deputy Zwinck but filed no lawsuits against State Patrol troopers who did the same. ICE arrested 3,522 people in Colorado between January 20 and October 15, 2025—five times the prior year.
Mountain governments approved $6 million while dividing over housing. Gunnison bought a $350,000 wetland but denied StarView subdivision. Pagosa Springs needs voter approval for a $3 million flood loan—totaling $4.6 million in debt. Grand County opposed the Clean Heat Plan over $35,000 electrification costs. Four catastrophic Keystone incidents in 34 days: two dead, one paralyzed, one with traumatic brain injury.
State Land Board Director Rosmarino earned a D. A Moffat County lessee with superior stewardship scores lost 9,634 acres to a bid 203 percent higher. The board authorized $683,000 in conservation spending on speculative biodiversity markets while denying a family mining operation generating $2,860 annually. Geothermal companies eye 576,000 acres while fen protection expands grazing restrictions across 1,500 acres. Read the full seven-article investigation.
The federal magistrate who blocked Don Lemon’s charges is married to an assistant attorney general working for Minnesota AG Keith Ellison—who appeared at the church defending protesters. Neither responded to recusal questions.
Eric Coomer filed an emergency motion barring Patrick Byrne from being asked about Venezuela, Serbia, and China—thirteen days after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Maduro. If Byrne’s claims are baseless, Coomer should want them aired.
Kansas became the 20th state calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention. Twenty down. Fourteen to go.
Trump forced NATO to bend on Greenland, walked away from the World Health Organization, and built a Gaza reconstruction framework bypassing the United Nations entirely. The agreement gives Washington “total,” “permanent,” and “infinite” military access to the Arctic territory while Copenhagen keeps administrative sovereignty. Iran’s security forces killed at least 5,002 people after economic protests spread to all 31 provinces. The regime imposed a total internet blackout January 8. Heavy machine guns deployed against crowds, snipers positioned on rooftops, hospitals raided to arrest wounded. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group steams toward the Persian Gulf.
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