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Colorado
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 66 stories to Colorado since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Colorado.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Colorado
10 storiesICE 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
Denver and three civil rights groups sue to bar armed ICE agents from polling places and ballot drop boxes in November, citing a Civil War-era law.
Denver clerk vows to arrest agents
Trump orders agencies to start removing gray wolves from the endangered species list and tells Interior Secretary Burgum to push states to let ranchers shoot them.
Colorado voters approved reintroduction in 2020
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
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
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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