Tag: Gerrymandering In The United States
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Study shows twice as many state legislatures gerrymandered to favor Republicans | Cronin and Loevy
Most of the states in the United States (about 75%) have a legislature that has been gerrymandered to favor either the Republican or the Democratic party. Gerrymandering is the drawing of legislative district lines in such a way that a political party elects more legislators than it would ordinarily be entitled to. Gerrymandering creates large…
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Colorado high court swirls around redistricting criteria in final oral arguments
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday questioned the legislative redistricting plan adopted by the state’s inaugural independent legislative redistricting commission, during oral arguments in a legal struggle that’s developed in the high court’s chambers over the exact meaning of the constitutional redistricting amendments approved in 2018. The state supreme court’s review of the redistricting plans…
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Colorado Supreme Court contemplates fate of congressional redistricting commission’s adopted map
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Attorneys sparred Tuesday before the Colorado Supreme Court, debating how far the state’s new redistricting commission must go to empower minority voters and whether its congressional map should be used for the next decade. Debate centered on a key passage from the voter-approved amendments that…
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Colorado congressional redistricting commission focuses on ‘southern district’ concept
The proposal could help amplify the voice of rural Hispanic Coloradans
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Redistricting is coming to a Colorado city near you. Find times and locations here.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This article has been updated with the times and locations of public meetings. Have opinions on what the state’s political maps should look like after they get reconfigured this year? Colorado’s redistricting commissions will be touring the state in July and August, looking for your…
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Scrutiny aimed at redistricting commission’s maps over minority protections
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Preliminary draft maps unveiled in June by the state’s legislative redistricting commission, if not adjusted, could violate federal civil rights laws, two state lawmakers said this week, by splitting minority communities in some parts of…
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State redistricting commissions rebuke lawmakers’ ‘unconstitutional infringement’ in census matter
Colorado’s two independent redistricting commissions have two words for state lawmakers: Hands off. In legal briefs filed by the two commissions, they wrote that state lawmakers overstepped their boundaries when they quickly advanced a piece of legislation that would change the redistricting process overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018. Now they want the Colorado Supreme…