Utah judge orders legislature to redraw congressional maps in time for midterms

A judge ordered the Utah Legislature on Monday to re -prepare his Congress map for the mid -term elections of next year, the state Legislature realizes that its districts were illegally germander in favor of Republican.

Judge Diana Gibson said 76 pages Order By the end of September, the Legislature will have to pass the “map of the therapeutic Congress”. State MPs have already indicated that they are planning to appeal, which means that the case is possible for the Supreme Court and possibly the US Supreme Court.

Gibson’s order comes after a fight between the country’s two largest states, Texas and California, which emphasizes Germanding in the national spotlight. Gerrymandering is a practice to change the boundaries of a Congress district in a state to benefit a political party, which critics say that the votes dilute.

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The lawsuit in Utah arose from recurrent changes started in 2018. Utah voters passed proposal 4, also known as “better boundaries” initiatives, to improve the redistributed process and create an independent commission to maintain it.

But the State Legislature passed a bill after two years, which eliminates that measurement and reduced the commission of its power and snatched away an advisory body. The MPs then sidelined the Commission by portraying the Congress map in favor of Republican.

The new map divided the Salt Lake City in four ways, including the voting rights group, which included Mormon women for the women voters’ league and the moral government, alleged that violating the standards set by proposals 4 illegally demolished the state’s only blue-shrinking urban area in violation of the standards set by proposals 4.

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Sen Mike LeeR-Yuta, on Monday, warned Gibson’s decision that “almost a ‘almost a’ independent commission ‘is a strategy to give a lead to almost anything that they cannot win through fair elections.”

“We need to stop this trend. To do this, we must first understand what these independent commission really represents,” Lee has written in a long X post. “In a state such as Utah, they are essentially a mechanism for leftists that they cannot achieve through democratic elections to grab power.”

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The redistribution dispute of Utah comes after passing a new map of the Legislature of Texas this month, which gives Republican an advantage in the upcoming midopters. President Donald Trump encouraged the move and celebrated it as a “big win”, while the state Democrats temporarily fled the state in protest against the new map.

California Gowin Gavin NewsomA Democrat replied that what he said, he passed a new in a particular election this year to extend the plan prepared by an independent commission to suspend the map of his own kingdom by grabbing a trump -led power. At a press conference, Newsom said that Democrats needed to “play hardball” to create a chance against a Republican party led by Trump. Trump vowed to sue Newsom on the map on Monday.