Denver November 2004 Election
I'm pretty sure that no matter what I'll still be living in Congressional District 1 after the redistricting battle is over. Many other Coloradans still don't know what district they live in. Republicans have fired another shot in the ongoing battle, according to the Denver Post [December 19, 2003, "GOP asks for federal ruling on remap"]. From the article, "Lawyers for Colorado's leading Republicans appeared in court Thursday to ask three federal judges to review the Colorado Supreme Court's recent striking of a Republican-drawn map of the state's congressional districts. Democratic attorneys asked the judges to refuse the invitation and send Gov. Bill Owens, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson and Republican state legislators on to the U.S. Supreme Court, which usually conducts such reviews. But it is unlikely federal judges in Denver or the U.S. Supreme Court will get involved, said Nate Persily, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. 'You cannot seek redress from a state court judgment in federal court,' he said. 'You've got to go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.'"
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