redistricting in the united states
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Redistricting is coming to a Colorado city near you. Find times and locations here.
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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 input on the congressional and legislative maps they’re redrawing. Starting…
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Redistricting testimony triggers high-profile lobbying disclosure, questions over reporting requirements
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Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners are in the middle of a statewide tour, listening as members of the public give their opinions on what they want the next decade’s congressional and legislative maps to look like. But that isn’t entirely what’s been going on. In at least one example at the commissions’ public input hearing Tuesday…
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Redistricting commissions’ maps ripped in Arvada
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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 the weekend in rural, eastern parts of the state. The…
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Redistricting commissioners plan to ask state Supreme Court for respite on hearings, deadlines
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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 hope to file Tuesday with the Colorado Supreme Court that…
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ANALYSIS | Proposed legislative draft maps from Colorado redistricting commission show Dems lose ground in House
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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
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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
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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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State Supreme Court scrutinizes legislators’ redistricting proposal
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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
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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…
