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Anti-gerrymandering plaintiffs cite ‘irony’ in Utah lawmakers’ appeal to Utah Supreme Court
Utah’s yearslong redistricting lawsuit is back before the Utah Supreme Court as the Utah Legislature’s attorneys continue to fight a lower court ruling that tossed out the state’s 2021 congressional boundaries. Legislative attorneys argue the tight timeline the court has laid out to select a new map before Nov. 10, in time for the 2026 election, has only heightened “the separation-of-powers harms to the Legislature” and doesn’t wholly abide by the 2018, anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative known as Proposition 4 that the judge has now deemed law. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs ...
