By Michael Karlik | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government.
The Colorado Republican Party appeared in court last week seeking modifications to the state’s system for primary elections, and new data from the federal judiciary show the extent of some judges’ backlogs.
A clash over unaffiliateds
• In 2016, Colorado voters approved a ballot initiative to permit registered unaffiliated voters — the largest voting bloc — to participate in either the Democratic or Republican primaries. The GOP has mounted an official challenge to that law, Proposition 108, with a substantial portion of the party believing it is preferable for only Republicans to choose Republican nominees (on the legal theory that it is a constitutional violation for the state to force them to accept unaffiliateds into their primary).