NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal court ruling Monday has essentially locked in a new Utah congressional redistricting map that would create a Democrat-heavy Salt Lake City-based seat, potentially flipping one of Utah’s Republican-held U.S. House seats. A special three-judge federal panel is allowing a revised congressional redistricting map in Utah … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Supreme Court rejected on Friday an appeal by Republican lawmakers and left in place a congressional map that gives Democrats a high chance of picking up one of the state’s four Republican-held U.S. House seats in the fall. In the order signed by Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant, the court … Read more
A three-judge panel declined to block Utah’s new congressional map on Monday, ruling that Republicans’ challenge to the court-ordered district lines was unlikely to succeed and that it was too close to the election to change the map. The map puts most of Salt Lake City into one district, making it likely Democrats will pick … Read more