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The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge of Utah’s congressional districts, drawn by the majority-Republican Legislature. Justices are weighing whether the state court ...
The algorithm initially didn’t work well because measuring gerrymandering in Utah is very different than measuring gerrymandering in other states. Having just four congressional districts means ...
The Republican supermajority in the Legislature rewrote the law and ignored those maps, instead splitting Salt Lake County into four different congressional districts. The Utah Supreme Court ruled ...
The map splits Salt Lake County, the state's most populous, into four congressional districts. Critics have decried the way Utah's capital — the Democratic stronghold of Salt Lake City — was ...
However, in 2020, the Utah Legislature repealed and ... the Legislature “shall divide the state into congressional, legislative and other districts.” Proposition 4’s independent commission ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah could be one step closer to having new congressional district boundaries — or, having the current four solid Republican districts locked in for the rest of the decade ...
Attorney Taylor Meehan talks with Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson during a break in oral arguments for a case challenging the state's congressional districts before the Utah Supreme Court in Salt ...
Voters in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District will ... to divide Salt Lake County among the state’s four congressional districts, diluting the voting strength of the state’s Democratic base.
Like the rest of Utah's congressional districts, the 2nd District was drawn to reliably elect Republicans by grouping Democratic-leaning voters in the Salt Lake City area with a larger number of ...