The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party.
District Court Judge Dianna Gibson, who ruled Monday, made few judgments on the content of the map but declared it unlawful because lawmakers had weakened and ignored an independent commission established by voters to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
A Utah district judge has ruled that the state must redraw its congressional districts because the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature erred when it overruled a ballot measure passed by voters that sought to rein in partisan gerrymandering
Utah judge orders legislature to redraw congressional maps within 30 days after finding illegal gerrymandering that favored Republicans in upcoming midterm elections.
Utah may be added to the list of states that will redraw their congressional maps in 2025. But unlike Texas and California, it is to correct a gerrymander by the Republican-controlled legislature, which has tried to sidestep the state’s independent redistricting commission.
A Utah judge said the state must redraw its congressional districts because the state's Republicans overruled a ballot measure to prevent gerrymandering.
SALT LAKE CITY (KSL.com) — More than a year after the Utah Supreme Court said lawmakers overreached by changing a ballot initiative on redistricting, a lower court judge ruled Monday that the current maps can’t be used “in any future elections” and gave lawmakers 30 days to enact new political bound…
U.S. District Court Judge Dianna Gibson ruled that the maps need to be redone because state lawmakers ignored an independent commission that was established by voters to limit partisan gerrymandering.
A judge ruled that Utah lawmakers must draw new congressional maps in line with the citizen-passed ballot initiative against gerrymandering. Sen. Mike Lee called it a "judicial takeover."
A Utah judge threw a wrench into the Republican Party’s plan for a clean sweep of the state’s congressional seats Monday, striking down the GOP-drawn map.
Democrats lauded a Tuesday evening order by a judge in Utah directing the state legislature to quickly draw new congressional maps. “The Legislature is directed to design and enact a remedial congressional redistricting map in conformity with Proposition 4’s mandatory redistricting standards and req…
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