Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Right. The only info I can find is that Colorado's seven congressional boundaries were originally set by a court last year after Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on how the lines should be drawn. I believe it was a lower court in CO. I don't see why the COSC wouldn't be the final artibiter of the State Constitution. If there's an issue with the redistricting and it violates the state's constitution, the COSC would be the go-to court.
As a Colorado resident, I'm extremely confident that it was a lower court, and not the COSC. I'll try to find out more info, if the justice who established the boundaries is known to be a Republican, this could undercut certain arguments being made in this thread even further.
Edit: The Judge's name was Denver District Judge John W. Coughlin.
It looks like he has
pissed off the ACLU in the past by upholding a state obscenity law, this strikes me as relatively conservative behavoir.