"Restoring Colorado" ballot initiative?

[centrarchidae]

I don't have a cite handy, being on my phone at work, but there's a SCOTUS decision from a few decades ago, specifically barring what this initiative hopes to accomplish. IIRC (spqrzilla?) apportioning state legislative seats on anything but population is a failure to guarantee a republican form of government in that state, and there might have been something about equal protection in there as well.

It's not a bad idea, but I don't see it standing even if it does pass.

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[GilpinGuy]

I don't have a cite handy, being on my phone at work, but there's a SCOTUS decision from a few decades ago, specifically barring what this initiative hopes to accomplish. IIRC (spqrzilla?) apportioning state legislative seats on anything but population is a failure to guarantee a republican form of government in that state, and there might have been something about equal protection in there as well.

It's not a bad idea, but I don't see it standing even if it does pass.

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i have heard others who are way smarter than me cite this same decision and deem it not apples to oranges. From what I heard (Rosen, etc.) this isn't the same thing as that case and it would be a stretch for it fail the smell test. IIRC the original case was based on some redistricing due to race. I'll have to look it up...