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Colorado
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 70 stories to Colorado since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Colorado.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Colorado
10 storiesTrump meets Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted in an election equipment breach, to discuss federal involvement in midterms, a former Justice Department lawyer says.
Freed from prison 4 months ago
ICE writes state law "shall not apply" into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
3,500 detainee complaints, 10 refused inspections
21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.
Agency claims $300 billion industry savings
Alaska signed a confidential agreement letting DOJ flag individual voters for removal from state rolls, one of at least 12 states that quietly complied while judges ruled against DOJ in every related lawsuit.
DOJ sharing rolls with DHS
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in child care and safety net funding to Colorado, California, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois after officials couldn't provide evidence of fraud.
Based on one YouTuber's video
Energy Secretary orders third coal plant in one week to remain on standby, this time a Colorado facility that broke on December 19 and would cost $20-85 million to restart, despite state finding it "is not required for reliability."
More emergencies in 2025 than in 16 years combined
Postal Service proposes refusing to deliver mail ballots in states that withhold voter rolls, with postal workers screening ballots against state-compiled voter lists.
It'll guarantee the midterms, Trump said
Colorado prosecutors charge Customs and Border Protection officer with assault for grabbing protester by hair, throwing her down embankment outside ICE field office.
Second state charge of federal agent this week
Supreme Court rules 8-1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment, calling it viewpoint discrimination subject to strict scrutiny.
Jackson warns "no one knows what happens now"
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Weldon Amendment used as legal basis
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesColorado Supreme Court orders Children's Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
Lower court called injunction too risky
Five Democratic states ask judge to block Trump administration from withholding child care funding; HHS claimed fraud without evidence while demanding recipients' Social Security numbers.
$10 billion annually, 1.3 million children
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
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