Court rules against Colorado Republicans (congressional redistricting plan)

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/03/court-rules-against-colorado.html

Court rules against Colorado Republicans

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against Colorado Republicans challenging a congressional redistricting plan favorable to Democrats.

In a unanimous decision, the justices said that the four Republicans were not entitled to sue in an effort to replace a redistricting plan ordered by a court with one passed by a Republican-controlled state legislature.

A Democratic state judge drew up the first redistricting plan in 2002, while the Republican Legislature drew one up in 2003.

The court plan had been put in place when a divided Colorado General Assembly was unable to agree on one in time for the 2002 election.

[Roland99]

1. I still say districts should follow zip code boundaries

:)

[napi21]

2. I believe districts should be determined once every 10 years,

and based upon the general censes data. Keep BOTH Parties out of dicking around with them!

[gratuitous]

3. That used to be the custom and the practice

Until Tom DeLay decided that Republicans weren't sufficiently overrepresented in the Texas delegation, and forced the Lege to redraw the districts in middle of the decade. He even called out Homeland Security when the Democrats skedaddled to deny the Lege a quorum to do business.

And now the Republicans are getting bitten in the ass in Colorado. Turnabout is still fair play, fellows.