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Researchers from the University of Chicago spent over a year trying to get the partisan bias test to work in a state with a skewed political makeup. Utah was a specific example of where not to use it.

La Legislatura ha tomado una decisión sobre qué mapa quiere para representar los distritos congresionales de Utah. Ahora será enviado al juez Gibson como parte del proceso de redistribución de distritos ordenado por el tribunal en Utah.

The Legislature has made its call on which map it wants to represent Utah’s congressional districts. It will now be sent to Judge Gibson as part of Utah’s court-ordered redistricting process.

Thatcher drew his own map to get people talking. The Utah Legislature will publish its proposed map, after a court voided the current congressional map, on Sept. 25.

The Utah Legislature has asked the Utah Supreme Court to block a recent lower court ruling that threw out the state’s current congressional map. Plaintiffs in the case called the petition “jarring irony.”

In rejecting the state's argument, Salt Lake County District Judge Dianna Gibson pointed to partisan redistricting in Texas and California for 2026 as evidence that redistricting can indeed be done in Utah in coming weeks.

Utah Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson held a two-hour status hearing, mainly focused on timeline, after ruling that the state’s congressional maps had to be thrown out and replaced.

The plaintiffs argue the Utah lawmakers went too far. But the defendants claim the Legislature has equal power as the people.

The lawsuit is the first of its kind to face the Utah Supreme Court.

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