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In the News:
Court Kills Measure to Deny Immigrant Services in Colo.
The state Supreme Court threw out a proposed November ballot initiative Monday that sought to deny services to illegal immigrants, another setback for a movement that has struggled for years to get the hot-button issue before Colorado voters. In a 4-2 ruling, the court found that the proposed measure violated a provision of the Colorado Constitution that requires ballot initiatives to concern only a "single subject." By denying medical and welfare benefits to illegal immigrants and barring them from receiving state administrative services such as the recording of property deeds, the Defend Colorado Now initiative violated that requirement, the court ruled.
Immigration moves Colorado center stage
When 75,000 people marched on the Colorado Capitol six weeks ago for immigrant rights, it showed how big the issue of immigration is in this non-border state. Some of the state's politicians are leading the drive for immigration changes nationwide. And the state had been planning a showdown over a ballot initiative to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving some government services. But the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected the controversial measure, ruling 5-2 that it violates a constitutional requirement that initiatives deal with just one subject.