Tag: redistricting
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EDITORIAL Colorado Supreme Court derails gerrymandering
The Colorado Supreme Court upheld Colorado’s voter-approved redistricting system Monday, fending off an attempt initiated by Democrats to subvert it to their advantage. The upshot of the ruling is to keep our state’s fair and reasonably drawn congressional districts in place — and to keep Colorado out of the national, election-year brawl over redistricting. Colorado…
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Court says redistricting plans for 2028 election cannot proceed
The Colorado Supreme Court blocked all attempts at redrawing congressional district boundaries for the 2028 election from reaching the ballot on June 29, concluding each of the proposed ballot measures violated the constitutional single-subject requirement. The court considered five distinct but related ballot measures. Half of the proposals would have redrawn U.S. House of Representatives…
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Court says redistricting plans for 2028 election cannot proceed
The Colorado Supreme Court blocked all attempts at redrawing congressional district boundaries for the 2028 election from reaching the ballot on June 29, concluding each of the proposed ballot measures violated the constitutional single-subject requirement. The court considered five distinct but related ballot measures. Half of the proposals would have redrawn U.S. House of Representatives…
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Colorado Title Board advances competing redistricting proposals, revised Pinnacol measure
With just two meetings left before an April 15 deadline, the state’s Title Board on Wednesday pushed through a slate of ballot measures, including a revised proposal to privatize Pinnacol Assurance and dueling plans to redraw Colorado’s congressional map. The measures set the stage for potential legal fights and a crowded November ballot. Any ballot…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t subvert Colorado’s nonpartisan congressional map
An alarming effort is underway to throw out the nonpartisan guardrails voters placed around Colorado’s congressional map six years ago — just so the state can join a national, partisan war over congressional redistricting. The inaptly named group, Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, has put forward several possible measures for November’s ballot. Its sole…
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Redistricting scheme would give Colorado Democrats seven House members, split El Paso County | Bob Loevy
A proposed redistricting plan, which could give Colorado seven Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and only one Republican, would split El Paso County into two parts and thereby weaken the county’s influence in Congress. El Paso County, which contains all of Colorado Springs, currently is mainly in the 5th Congressional District. The…
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Dems try to hijack Colorado’s congressional map | Dick Wadhams
Colorado Democrats are hell bent to sideline the Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission in the 2026 election and ultimately steal three Republican congressional seats in 2028 and 2030. A hilariously named group that calls itself “Coloradans for a Level Playing Field” wants to bypass the Independent Commission and the competitive congressional districts it created in 2021…
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
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 that Weld County did not follow the procedures for how…
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‘Chutzpah’: Colorado justices raise eyebrows at Weld County’s assertion it can evade redistricting law
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared incredulous on Wednesday as a lawyer for Weld County argued the jurisdiction did not need to follow the state’s redistricting law, maintained it should not have to redraw its commissioner districts for nine more years, and declined to say whether the county would even comply with a Supreme…
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Final redistricting sets new map for next year’s Colorado Springs City Council elections
Colorado Springs released the new map of City Council districts on Friday, creating the borders that will be used for next year’s slate of council elections. The city charter requires the City Clerk’s Office to create a new map of city districts every four years to keep the areas represented by each council member roughly…