DENVER—Lawyers for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s tax and spending limits.
According to the Denver Post (), state lawyers characterized the lawsuit as an attack on citizen initiatives in a motion filed Monday.
A group of Democratic and Republican officials filed a legal challenge in May against a 1992 initiative that imposed strict limits on taxing and spending, calling the measure an unconstitutional law that renders the legislative branch ineffective.
The lawsuit in federal court aims to undo the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, commonly known in Colorado as TABOR. The lawsuit contends the initiative is unconstitutional because it deprives the state and its citizens of effective representative democracy.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
