Utah GOP Lawmakers Won't Give Up on Their Gerrymander Plan

Republicans in the Utah legislature voted last week to reject a new court-ordered congressional map, and extend the filing deadline for congressional candidates looking to run for the 2026 midterm elections.

The move signals that Utah’s GOP-led legislature is planning to appeal their recently rejected gerrymandered congressional map to the Utah Supreme Court — and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court.

The recent efforts by GOP lawmakers to circumvent the new congressional map ordered by Utah Judge Dianna Gibson that creates a Democratic-leaning district come as the state Republican party launches their own, separate effort to repeal the new map and Proposition 4 — the voter-approved anti-gerrymandering reform — with the help of a controversial, Trump-aligned political consulting firm.

The legislature’s vote to condemn Gibson’s decision to reject the proposed gerrymandered map, and instead implement a map that complies with the state’s anti-gerrymandering law, passed last week as a resolution — meaning the vote was largely ceremonial and has no binding effect on the current map in place for the 2026 midterm elections.


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