Tag: Redistricting In The United States
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Redistricting commissions’ maps ripped in Arvada
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners got an earful Tuesday night in Arvada — from the biggest crowd yet at a public input hearing — about the preliminary draft maps unveiled in June. It was the first public input hearing in a metro area, after the first three, held over…
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Redistricting commissioners plan to ask state Supreme Court for respite on hearings, deadlines
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions are again scrambling to adjust the process and timeline they’re following to redraw the state’s political maps, all caused by a months-long delay in the decennial census. On Monday, the congressional redistricting commission authorized their attorney to draft a pleading they…
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ANALYSIS | Proposed legislative draft maps from Colorado redistricting commission show Dems lose ground in House
Early analysis of the preliminary draft of maps for the state Senate and House show that there will be plenty of competition, mostly between incumbents, and often within the same party. What was released by Colorado’s legislative redistricting commission on Tuesday is only a “starting point” map, like the preliminary draft congressional map released last…
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CHOICE CUTS | How competing redistricting requirements will reshape Colorado’s congressional map
Note: This story has been updated to accommodate developments that happened the week of June 7. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission has grappled with months-delayed census data, legislators trying to unconstitutionally tweak their procedures, a state Supreme Court case to defend their independence and the takedown of their first chairman over his controversial Facebook posts —…
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CHOICE CUTS | How competing redistricting requirements will reshape Colorado’s congressional map
Note: This story has been updated to accommodate developments that happened the week of June 7. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission has grappled with months-delayed census data, legislators trying to unconstitutionally tweak their procedures, a state Supreme Court case to defend their independence and the takedown of their first chairman over his controversial Facebook posts —…
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Colorado Supreme Court beats back state politicians’ redistricting efforts
Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions are, in fact, independent from the state’s political class and their desires, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, rebuffing lawmakers, the governor, the secretary of state and the attorney general. Specifically, the Colorado Supreme Court said the lawmakers’ bill that would change this year’s redistricting process amounts to an unconstitutional infringement…
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Redistricting commissioners clash over prisoner reallocation
Some of the commissioners charged with redrawing Colorado’s congressional maps have raised objections to a law requiring them to count state prisoners where they lived prior to their incarceration, instead of where they’re locked up, drawing sharp responses from members of the panel who back the prisoner reallocation law. While only a minority of commissioners…
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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…
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Congressional redistricting commission OKs drafting maps without census data
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commission voted Monday to begin drawing draft congressional maps that rely on survey data and estimates, due to a months-long delay in the U.S. Census Bureau’s normal decennial census data. The…