Judge rules Democrats can't use computers to combat GOP efforts to slow Colorado Senate

A Denver judge gave Republicans in the Colorado legislature a victory Tuesday, ordering that Democrats in the state Senate and the chamber’s clerk be barred from reading legislation in an unintelligible way.

The temporary order came after the GOP on Monday requested that a 2,000-page bill be read in full as part of efforts to gum up work in the Senate in protest of a major oil and gas bill.

In response, the legislation — House Bill 1172, a non- controversial but extremely long measure — was read, but mostly by a computer. The reading was nearly impossible to understand and took about six hours to complete.

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