FBI Director James Comey erroneously told Congress last week that former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands” of emails to her husband’s laptop — and the bureau is looking for a way to clean up his error, according to officials familiar with the matter.

According to Comey, Clinton’s emails had been forwarded to the computer of Abedin’s husband, former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner. But US officials told CNN last fall the majority of the thousands of emails reviewed by the FBI got to Weiner’s computer via a backup system for Abedin’s phone.

In Comey’s testimony, however, he suggested “hundreds and thousands” of emails had been deliberately sent directly from Abedin to Weiner’s computer. While some of those emails may have been sent directly from Huma in order to be printed, officials told CNN, the number was far fewer than the amount Comey described.

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► A Boulder judge has tossed a lawsuit attempt by Attorney General Cynthia Coffman aimed at trying to stop Boulder County from enforcing restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the area. As the Longmont Times-Call reports:

Boulder County’s moratorium on accepting and processing new applications for oil and gas development in unincorporated parts of the county— the latest in a series of moratoriums the county originally imposed in February 2012 — expired May 1.

The Boulder County Attorney’s Office then filed a motion to dismiss the complaints that the Attorney General’s Office, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the American Petroleum Institute had made in their challenges of the legality of the county’s moratorium.

Boulder County stated in its filing that since the moratorium had “expired by its own terms” on May 1, “the case is moot” and the district court therefore “lacks subject matter jurisdiction.” The county said it had conferred with the attorneys for the state and the trade organizations and that they did not object to the dismissal.

On May 2, Boulder District Judge Norma Sierra issued an order granting the county’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit that Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and her staff originally filed on Feb. 14 and that the Oil and Gas Association and the Petroleum Institute had joined as intervenors on Feb. 24.

► State Sen. Don Coram (R-Montrose) is making a last-minute legislative push to convince Colorado officials to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over the Gold King Mine Spill.

► Legislation intended to implement 2016 ballot measures giving Unaffiliated voters the ability to vote in partisan primaries continues to advance before the end of the 2017 legislative session on Wednesday. Brian Eason reports on the compromise for the Denver Post:

With the changes, the path now seems clear for Senate Bill 305 to become law. But it would retain a few key, disputed pieces from the original measure: unaffiliated voters still will be asked before the election if they prefer one party’s ballot to the other, and the party primary they choose to vote in still will be a matter of public record…

…Under the amendment adopted Monday, voters still would be asked if they wanted to vote in one party’s primary or the other, said Sen. Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, one of the bill’s sponsors. But unlike the original bill, that preference would last only for a single election cycle, a concession to opponents who felt that the initial process amounted to “de facto affiliation” of unaffiliated voters.

Under the changes, unaffiliated voters would be offered their choice of ballots again prior to each new primary election. Those who don’t indicate a preference will be sent one ballot for each party and be instructed to vote in only one. [Pols emphasis]

We’d by lying if we said we understood the point of this “compromise.”

► State Senate Republicans are still struggling to explain why they rejected the re-appointment of an LGBTQ advocate to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

► Colorado’s Canyon of the Ancients National Monument could lose its federal designation thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump.

► President Trump says that he reserves the right to ignore a provision in a spending bill he signed on Friday. From the Associated Press:

President Donald Trump signed his first piece of major legislation on Friday, a $1 trillion spending bill to keep the government operating through September.

The bill cleared both houses of Congress this week and Trump signed it into law behind closed doors at his home in central New Jersey, well ahead of a midnight Friday deadline for some government operations to begin shutting down.

Trump signed the bill despite his objections to numerous provisions included in the measure. One such provision prohibits the Justice Department from using any funds to block implementation of medical marijuana laws by states and U.S. territories. In a signing statement that accompanied the bill and that laid out his objections, Trump said he reserved the right to ignore the provision. He held out the possibility that the administration could pursue legal action against states and territories that legalize marijuana for medical use.

► The U.S. Senate faces a deadline this week on whether or not to overturn a Bureau of Land Management rule regulating methane emissions from oil and gas development. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Denver) opposes efforts to roll back the regulations, while Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) continues to avoid making public comments one way or the other.

► Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell is accusing fellow GOP contender George Brauchler of using the death penalty for “political purposes.”