{"id":962,"date":"2026-08-11T21:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/?p=962"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:09:50","slug":"colorado-supreme-court-blocks-democrat-redistricting-push-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Supreme Court Blocks Democrat Redistricting Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Supreme Court blocked three proposed ballot measures on Monday that sought to suspend the state independent redistricting commission ahead of the 2028 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Monica Marquez wrote that the initiatives violated the state constitutional single-subject requirement because they represented a seismic shift to established voting procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-6 text-lg leading-relaxed text-justify\">Supporters argued these temporary map changes were necessary, but opponents successfully contended the initiatives fundamentally altered the established redistricting process currently enshrined in the state constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-6 text-lg leading-relaxed text-justify\">By issuing three unanimous opinions, the court officially prevented these controversial redistricting proposals from advancing to the upcoming November statewide ballot for voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Supreme Court blocked three proposed ballot measures on Monday that sought to suspend the state independent redistricting commission ahead of the 2028 elections. Chief Justice Monica Marquez wrote &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}