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Congressman Mike Coffman has a date with the state's Independent Ethics Commission this week, after a Denver District Court judge denied his request to delay a hearing in a complaint against him.

"Having fully considered the jurisdictional arguments of Coffman advanced to the Court," Judge Norman Haglund wrote in his order on Friday, "the Court finds no support for the contention that the Commission is clearly acting beyond its constitutional authority in proceeding."

The hearing is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Friday.

Colorado Ethics Watch, a watchdog group, filed the complaint last year with the ethics commission alleging that Coffman, a Republican, violated state ethics rules while serving as secretary of state.