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Colorado Republican Joe O'Dea has won endorsements in the U.S. Senate primary from more than a dozen current and former elected officials and conservative activists, his campaign announced.
The state's Independent Ethics Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to grant subpoena power to Commissioner Sarah Mercer, the hearing officer in one of three ethics complaints filed against Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters.
Jeff Hunt serves as director of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University and is one of the most visible voices on the abortion debate.Hunt said the conversation within the anti-abortion movement in Colorado revolves around a ballot measure in 2024 that is similar to Proposition 115, which asked voters in 2020 to ban abortion after 22 weeks of gestation, except when it is required to save the life of the mother.  He recently noted that Evangelical Christians make up the single largest voting bloc of voters in the Republican Party, and abortion was a driving force in getting them to vote in 2016 and 2020."Now, it gets even bigger at this point," he told Colorado Politics in a separate interview shortly after the leak of a draft opinion showing a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices are poised to strike down Roe v Wade, the decades-old decision that gave women the legal ability to get an abortion. In this Q&A, Hunt talked the draft opinion and its political and social ramifications in Colorado. His answers have been edited for clarity and brevity.  Colorado Politics: What's your take on the draft opinion itself? Can you highlight some of Justice (Samuel) Alito's arguments that, from your perspective, are airtight?Jeff Hunt: The opinion is long with a tremendous commitment to historical analysis of abortion law in America. What appealed to me most were his arguments regarding ordered liberty, which are found on page 31. That is the ultimate crux of the debate on abortion. How do you handle two competing interests for liberty. On one hand, you have the interest not to have children. On the other hand, you have the preborn child’s interest to live. Conservatives has a different view of liberty than liberals. Conservatives embrace an ordered liberty – this is the liberty that guided the American Revolution. Unrestricted personal liberty drove the French and Russian Revolutions.
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Colorado Springs is responsible for identifying a site for a passenger rail station that would serve Amtrak and intercity commuter trains, and the staff has narrowed the options down to four sites in the downtown area.
