Legislative Procedure. Can you Speed Read?

What’s happening? Co courts blocked an end run around filibuster-ish rules. In the CO a member can force the reading of a bill in its entirety to take up time. Well, to be clever, and thinking that they found a loophole, the legislative leaders opted for speed reading by computer. The CO Supreme Court said- no, speed reading does not comply with the constitutional requirements.

How is this important? These tactics and court cases, led to the two parties to work together to find common ground. Statesmanship lived.

Why will this be important? CO courts may not have liked it, but maybe Texas courts thinks, yeah, that works.

AP | Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution