" ... Like the Texas effort, which also is facing court challenge,
the Colorado redistricting scheme would have set a dangerous precedent for a redistricting system that is already corroding
democracy nationally with partisan machinations designed to deprive voters of electoral choice."
WHEN IT STRUCK down the attempt by the Colorado legislature to draw new congressional districts between census cycles,
that state's supreme court sounded an important alarm about a genuinely alarming development. The mid-cycle redistricting
by the Colorado General Assembly garnered a lot less attention than the high-profile slugfest in Texas -- both because it
would shift fewer seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to Republicans and because Democratic legislators did not flee
the state to block its passage. But like the Texas effort, which also is facing court challenge, the Colorado redistricting
scheme would have set a dangerous precedent for a redistricting system that is already corroding democracy nationally with
partisan machinations designed to deprive voters of electoral choice. ...
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