Utah's GOP-controlled Legislature to appeal new congressional map [View all]

Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature plans to appeal the state’s new court-ordered congressional map to the state Supreme Court, legislative leadership announced Tuesday.

A state district judge installed a new map earlier this month that creates a safe-blue seat around Salt Lake City, delivering Democrats an opportunity to break into the all-GOP delegation. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox will call a special session on Dec. 9, likely to delay the state’s candidate filing deadline as a potential appeal makes its way through the courts, state Senate President Stuart Adams announced Tuesday.

“By design or by default, Judge [Dianna] Gibson has authorized the most partisan and thus the most gerrymandered map in the history of the state of Utah,” Adams said during a press conference at the Utah Capitol Tuesday morning.

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said the Legislature is awaiting Gibson — who was appointed to the bench by former Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican — to “wrap up her final decision,” at which point the Legislature will appeal to the state’s highest court. Legislators have also said they will attempt to impeach Gibson.


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