Hart Van Denburg/CPR News The Gallery of the Presidents on the third floor of the Colorado state Capitol Rotunda. The Colorado General Assembly opened its 2021 session on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The Colorado Supreme Court has sided with Republicans in a ruling that will preserve a stalling tactic used by the GOP in recent years at the state legislature. The justices found that Democrats violated a provision in the state constitution when they used computers to speed things up after a Republican state senator asked for a massive bill to be read aloud in its entirety. Legislative rules allow any state lawmaker to request that a bill be read at length before it’s voted on. It’s one of the few ways members of the party in the minority can slow down the legislative process.