The Denver Gazette’s Nicole C. Brambila reports that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is pressing Colorado’s court administrator over a new rule requiring attorneys to certify they will not use court data for immigration enforcement. Republicans on the committee argue the rule obstructs federal law, compels political speech, and ties Colorado’s court system to the state’s sanctuary-style immigration policies.
The article notes that Colorado and Denver have both adopted laws restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, while political leaders continue to insist neither the state nor Denver is a “sanctuary” jurisdiction. That is one of my favorite Colorado lies. Pass law after law that walks, talks, and quacks like sanctuary policy, then stare into the camera and say, “Sanctuary? Never heard of her.”
The Bullet Point Brief
- The House Judiciary Committee wants answers about a Colorado court rule requiring attorneys to promise, under penalty of perjury, not to use court information for immigration enforcement. Nothing says neutral court access like a political loyalty checkbox.
- The rule stems from a 2025 law that extended immigration-related data restrictions to the judicial and legislative branches. Because apparently even the courts needed to be drafted into Colorado’s anti-ICE resistance cosplay.
- Colorado and Denver have laws restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, but leaders insist they are not sanctuary jurisdictions. That is not policy nuance. That is gaslighting with a taxpayer-funded legal department.
- The committee says the rule obstructs federal immigration law and interferes with attorneys’ ethical duties. In plain English: Colorado Democrats put their political agenda between lawyers, courts, clients, and federal law.
- A First Amendment attorney quoted in the article said the requirement appears unconstitutional, comparing it to forcing people to sign a political-use pledge before entering a public library. When your court-access rule starts sounding like a college campus speech code, maybe put the shovel down.
My Bottom Line
This is one of my favorite lies in Colorado. Denver and Colorado have passed law after law to make themselves sanctuary jurisdictions, and then they keep a straight face while saying they are not sanctuary jurisdictions. Stunning. Absolutely Olympic-level gaslighting.
The public is not stupid. If you bar cooperation with federal immigration authorities, restrict the sharing of information, punish government workers for helping immigration enforcement, and make attorneys certify that court data will not be used for immigration enforcement, then spare us the word games. You may not like the label, but you bought the jersey.
It is high time Colorado and Denver are held accountable for the lies and the blatant disregard of federal statute. Immigration law is federal law. States and cities do not get to nullify it because the activist class wants applause and the ruling Democrats want to prove their resistance credentials.
And once again, normal people are left watching government twist itself into knots to protect illegal immigrants while pretending this is about privacy, civil rights, or local compassion. No. This is about political power and ideological defiance.
If Colorado officials want to fight federal law, they should say that plainly. Stop hiding behind bureaucratic language and legal fog. Stop pretending sanctuary policies are not sanctuary policies. Stop treating voters like they cannot read. The House Judiciary Committee is right to start asking questions, and Colorado’s ruling Democrats should have to answer them under brighter lights than they are used to.
Source: The Denver Gazette
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