cIVIL RIGHTS AND VOTING RIGHTS

Civil rights doesn’t end when the federal government walks away. The Trump administration is actively dismantling the infrastructure that protects working people and marginalized people from discrimination–gutting disparate impact enforcement, abandoning consent decrees, and turning the DOJ Civil Rights Division into an instrument of political retaliation. Colorado can't wait for Washington to do its job.

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As attorney general, David will build a civil rights enforcement operation that steps into that void:

• Building out a robust disparate impact enforcement program under Colorado's own civil rights laws—because when a company's hiring algorithm screens out workers of color, when a bank's lending model denies mortgages in Black and Latino neighborhoods, and when an AI system produces discriminatory outcomes regardless of intent, that is illegal under Colorado law and David will treat it that way.

• Defending reproductive freedom—Colorado's Amendment 79 enshrined the right to abortion in our state constitution. David will fight any federal attempt to override it, prosecute threats and obstruction at reproductive health clinics, and ensure that providers and patients in Colorado are protected.

• Protecting transgender Coloradans—Colorado law protects access to gender-affirming care. David will enforce those protections, pursue discrimination cases aggressively, and push back against hospitals and institutions that preemptively back down from their legal obligations in response to federal pressure.

• Protecting LGBTQ+ Coloradans from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. 

• Fighting back against rising hate and bigotry in public and private institutions, including antisemitism and islamophobia. 

• Defending voting rights under the Colorado Voting Rights Act—including enforcing protections against vote dilution, fighting unnecessary barriers to access, and ensuring that the federal retreat from Voting Rights Act enforcement does not leave Colorado communities without recourse.

• Enforcing civil rights accountability for law enforcement—using pattern or practice authority, POST board oversight, and the full toolkit of the office to ensure that communities of color are not subjected to systemic discrimination by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.