Colorado Politics: Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday agreed a former executive of Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems may proceed with his defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and several prominent supporters who publicly accused him of rigging the 2020 election based on the unproven claims of a conservative podcaster.

A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, presented sufficient evidence the statements accusing him of criminal conduct were false and made maliciously amid a broader campaign by Trump to discredit his election loss.

There was a “reasonable likelihood that a jury could find that defendants were touting the theory as fact — whether for entertainment purposes or to bolster their claims of election irregularities more generally — without being convinced beyond serious doubt of its truth,” wrote Judge Karl L. Schock in the April 11 opinion.

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