A Denver judge has rejected Gov. Jared Polis’ attempt to dismiss a lawsuit that has blocked certain state employees from complying with a federal immigration subpoena.

Instead, District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones ordered outside attorneys representing Polis to provide a full response to the lawsuit by next week. He affirmed that a former state employee and a nonprofit law firm both had standing to sue the governor in a challenge of his May decision to turn over sensitive personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Scott Moss, who was then a state employee, had alleged that cooperating with ICE would violate state laws, including a new law that Polis signed at nearly the same time he decided to comply with the subpoena.

The judge’s ruling, issued last week on the da

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