(Salt Lake City, UT) — A three judge federal panel has rejected a Republican effort to overturn the congressional map that’s set to be used in this year’s elections. The judges from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued their decision yesterday. That comes a few days after the Utah […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from legislative leaders seeking to overturn approval of a new congressional map. The court’s action leaves the updated map in place and declines to reinstate the 2021 boundaries. The decision comes as officials verify signatures tied to […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Thousands of Utah voters want their names removed from a petition that seeks to repeal Proposition 4. That’s the proposition that voters passed in 2018 to create an independent redistricting commission. The effort to repeal Prop 4 will only get on the ballot if organizers […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Republicans are racing against the deadline to gather enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot. The GOP is trying to repeal the Proposition 4 Better Boundaries initiative passed in 2018 in order to allow the Legislature to decide congressional and legislative […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge is allowing Utah Republicans to appeal her ruling on redistricting to the Utah Supreme Court. Judge Diana Gibson says GOP lawmakers missed a deadline to file their case, but she’s letting it advance to the high court anyway. That’s because the case will […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s state legislature criticized a judge for redrawing Utah’s congressional districts as they extended the filing deadline for congressional candidates. Because the Republican majority cannot overrule the judge, pushing the filing deadline into March was the most they could do. The GOP lawmakers hope the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is calling the state legislature back for a special session. The session, which starts on Tuesday, is designed to handle several topics. Chief among them is the desire by Republicans to overturn a judge’s ruling that changed congressional districts. Cox wants the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Republican lawmakers are appealing to the state Supreme Court to overturn a congressional redistricting map. The map was approved earlier this month by a third-district court judge. Senate President Stuart Adams called it the most gerrymandered map in the state’s history. A special legislative […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge is facing threats after rejecting the Utah congressional map that was drawn by lawmakers in favor of a map that was drawn by voter organizations. The court did not specify what kind of threats were made, but indicated there have been threats of […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Following a court ruling overturning Utah’s legislative redistricting map, State Representative Matt MacPherson is calling for the impeachment of Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson. Gibson ruled that the legislature’s Map C violated the state’s anti-gerrymandering law and approved a plaintiff-drawn Map 1 for the […]
