Spurred by President Donald Trump’s demands that the GOP redraw districts for maximum advantage, red and blue states alike have introduced or are publicly considering new congressional maps with explicit partisan tilts.
Control of the U.S. House of Representatives hangs in the balance — along with the investigatory, impeachment and legislative authority that a majority in the chamber entails.
But Colorado won’t be a theater in this latest political battle. Not in time for the 2026 election, at least.
The state’s voters in 2018 , and a Colorado Supreme Court opinion issued 15 years before that , put a kibosh on redistricting in the state outside the usual post-census cycle that happens every decade.
Amendments Y and Z , passed in 2018, tie the redrawing of district maps for congr