Colorado Attorney General Democratic Primaries: Compare the Candidates

Compiled from publicly available sources (CPR News voter guide, The Colorado Sun, Axios Denver, Ballotpedia, campaign sites). Entries reflect each candidate’s own stated positions; cells are left blank where the candidate has not taken a public stance on that issue.

Issue	Jena Griswold	David Seligman	Michael Dougherty	Hetal Doshi
Education & experience	Colorado Secretary of State since 2019. Previously practiced international anti-corruption law. Background centered on election administration and voting access.	Executive director of the nonprofit law firm Towards Justice since 2018; career workers’-rights and civil rights litigator. Former chair of the Harvard Law Review.	Boulder County District Attorney since 2018; decades as a prosecutor, including in the Manhattan DA’s office and as head of the criminal section at the Colorado AG’s office. Has the most law-enforcement endorsements in the field.	Former federal prosecutor: Assistant U.S. Attorney for Colorado (2012–2024), then Deputy Assistant Attorney General leading the DOJ Antitrust Division under the Biden administration. First-generation Indian American; first run for office.
Environmental justice & climate	Stated focus on holding big corporations accountable and safeguarding land, air, and water. Would use consumer protection and antitrust tools to stop corporate practices that harm communities, including blocking mergers that increase pollution burdens.	Proposes an Environmental Justice and Enforcement Unit operating independently of the Governor to “make polluters pay,” naming Suncor as a company facing what he calls trivial fines. Frames pollution as a public-health and democracy issue and argues the AG should go on offense without waiting for the governor.
Immigrant rights	Emphasizes civil rights enforcement broadly; frames her role as protecting Coloradans’ rights against federal overreach and supporting communities targeted by discrimination.	Led a first-in-the-nation human-trafficking class action against GEO Group at the Aurora detention center and won at the U.S. Supreme Court for detainees. Sued to stop the governor turning over Coloradans’ personal information to ICE; platform calls for prosecuting ICE officers who violate Coloradans’ rights.	Calls to ban private prisons and require ICE agents to remove their masks. Points to the Immigrant Protection Program he led in Boulder County and helped take statewide, and says he will hold ICE agents accountable when they break the law.	Says her experience as a prosecutor equips her to prosecute ICE agents who violate the law and to fight the federal government in court. Describes the issue as personal as a first-generation American, and says she will stand with immigrant communities.
Workers’ rights	Pledges to fight for working- and middle-class Coloradans and to create or expand an office of workers’ rights targeting wage theft. Background is primarily in anti-corruption law and election administration rather than direct worker-advocacy litigation.	Career workers’-rights lawyer; says he has recovered nearly $100 million for working people through Towards Justice. Has litigated class-action wage theft cases and challenged abusive non-compete agreements; platform includes defending the right to a union.		Says she led first-of-their-kind criminal cases against executives accused of illegally suppressing wages.
Corporate accountability & antitrust	Pledges to hold big corporations accountable, including stopping grocery store mergers and cracking down on fraudulent business records. Supports general consumer protection but focuses more on high-profile rhetorical fights than specialized anti-monopoly litigation.	As a labor and civil rights attorney, targets systems of corporate power directly through antitrust and consumer law. Advocates banning private equity ownership of basic necessities like housing and healthcare, and prosecuting tech monopolies for consumer price gouging.	Pledges to go after price-fixing, corporate consolidation, and deceptive practices, including fighting mergers like King Soopers–Safeway. Says he is ready to take on insurance fraud, Medicaid fraud, and consumer scams, drawing on his time as head of the AG’s criminal section.	Says she led landmark federal antitrust cases against Google, Apple, Ticketmaster, and RealPage to break up corporate power. Describes herself as the only candidate who has stopped billion-dollar mergers, and pledges to prosecute monopolies, cartels, and price-fixers.
Criminal-legal reform & incarceration	Public materials emphasize public safety, civil rights, and protecting election workers over detailed criminal-legal reform proposals.	Emphasizes enforcing Colorado’s prohibition on involuntary servitude even for people convicted of a crime, citing a trial victory against the Department of Corrections under Amendment A. Frames incarceration as both a civil-rights and labor-exploitation problem.
Civil rights enforcement	Campaign highlights her as a champion for civil rights, promising to protect communities from discrimination and extremist threats.	Promises to fight for fundamental rights—abortion, a union, clean air and water—and to prosecute federal officials who violate Coloradans’ civil and constitutional rights.		Says she will protect rights and safety, with a focus on civil liberties and extremist threats.
Reproductive rights & gender-affirming care	Launch materials state that as a woman she’ll protect reproductive healthcare; supporters emphasize her as a defender of abortion rights.	Platform explicitly lists the right to an abortion as a fundamental right. Commits to holding accountable institutions that cut gender-affirming care in response to political pressure.
Voting rights & democracy	Signature area. As Secretary of State, expanded drop boxes and in-person voting, implemented automatic voter registration, and created ballot-tracking tools. Spearheaded laws criminalizing threats to election workers and fake elector schemes; frames her AG run as defending democracy from the Trump administration.	Frames the moment as a crisis of corruption and corporate abuse, and emphasizes using state law to fight Trump and the ecosystem around him, including suing federal contractors like Palantir.	Says the threats to democracy are the most serious of his lifetime and that the next AG cannot be walking into court against Trump for the first time. Says he is ready to protect Colorado, including from the federal government, and to win those courtroom battles.	Says courtrooms are where Trump and his allies are stopped, and that she will be ready to lead those fights from day one. Frames her campaign around defending Colorado from what she calls Trump’s attack on the rule of law and democratic institutions.
Anti-corruption & money in politics	Previously practiced international anti-corruption law; messaging focuses on standing up to Trump and corporate abuse, with less emphasis on structural campaign-finance reform.	Refuses corporate PAC money and runs an anti-establishment, grassroots campaign. Calls for public financing of elections, stricter lobbyist-ethics rules, and a broader anti-corruption package that may need to go to the ballot.		Says she has prosecuted corrupt public officials and fraudsters, and lists taking on political corruption and fraud as part of her platform.
Consumer protection	Emphasizes consumer protection as a core AG function: stopping illegal pricing, preventing monopolistic mergers, and protecting consumers from fraud. Connects affordability directly to enforcement against corporate misconduct.	Has litigated extensively on junk fees, medical debt, and fine-print terms that strip people of their right to go to court. Highlights everyday “rip-offs” like making subscriptions hard to cancel, and argues the AG should change that through active enforcement.	Says he helped secure a $1 million settlement from a realty company for deceptive practices and will continue to hold unscrupulous landlords accountable. Pledges to combat rising costs and protect working families from scams.	Says she will use every legal tool to protect Colorado families and fight those who rip them off. Frames high prices as the result of the powerful lying, cheating, and rigging the game.