Tag: Gerrymandering
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Virginia’s gerrymander vote is a warning for Colorado | Jimmy Sengenberger
Democracy is two foxes and a chicken voting on dinner plans. Few examples better illustrate America’s drift from constitutional, “small-r” republican governance than Tuesday’s gerrymandering vote in Virginia. Could Coloradans be drawn into the national partisan war? Virginia’s ballot measure ostensibly amends the state’s constitution to allow its legislature to adopt a new congressional map to “restore fairness in the…
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Weld County must comply with the state law governing how boards of county commissioners are to draw their districts, and the county needs to adopt new maps by next year’s election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Following the 2020 census, it was undisputed…
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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 Supreme Court approves independent congressional redistricting commissioners’ map
The Colorado Supreme Court has approved the eight-district congressional map crafted by the state’s inaugural independent congressional redistricting commission, setting up the new map to be used for the next 10 years. The Monday ruling largely concludes the state’s congressional redistricting process, save for administrative work by state and county election officials, who will begin…
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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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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 Supreme Court scrutinizes legislators’ redistricting proposal
Colorado’s highest court on Monday heard arguments over whether state legislators have the authority to enact a law that would adjust the voter-approved state redistricting process, with several justices skeptical of the legality or prudence of lawmakers’ proposal. At issue is a bill advanced by lawmakers that aims to keep the state’s redistricting commissioners on…
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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…