Redistricting commissions scramble for voice in supreme court's census fix consideration | Colorado Politics
Coloradoâs independent redistricting commissions have hired attorneys days before a crucial legal deadline in a fast-moving state supreme court case that could alter the once-in-a-decade political map drawing process. Hiring lawyers who will advise the commissions and represent them in legal matters, like the one now headed to the state high court, comes just in time to formulate and articulate the legislative and congressional redistricting commissionsâ positions on a proposed fix for the problems posed by delayed census data, with a deadline for written briefs this Thursday. The p...