Spencer Cox

GOP leaders have derided recent decisions as the work of activist judges or “policymaking from the bench.” That has some in the supermajority toying with the idea of judicial reform.

While Gov. Spencer Cox supports the removal of the earmark on public education funding, the Utah teachers’ union has asked a judge to keep the question, Amendment A, off the ballot.

Cox has reaffirmed his support for Donald Trump even as the former president has continued to spread insults and inflammatory statements on the campaign trail.

The governor is scheduled to meet the press at 10:00 a.m. MDT on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.

The first of Utah's general election debates featured Gov. Spencer Cox, Rep. Brian King, his Democratic challenger, and Libertarian Robert Latham.

The candidates seeking Utah's governorship will face off on Sept. 11, 2024, at 6 p.m. in a debate organized by the Utah Debate Commission.

The recommendations were required as a part of a 2022 law mandating ethnic studies be incorporated into Utah’s K-12 core standards.

Gov. Spencer Cox has carefully cultivated a brand of politics that centers on unity and respect, in contrast to Trump's brash style. After this past week, he's become ensnarled in a controversy involving a Trump event at Arlington National Cemetery.

Cox’s campaign on Wednesday has apologized for using the photo and politicizing the graveside ceremony, which honored Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover of Utah who was one of 13 who died in Afghanistan three years ago.

Utah state lawmakers are looking to pass a universal ban on cellphones during school hours. However, individual school districts could set more permissive policies.

Legal and historical experts say Utah will have to overcome centuries of precedent if the state is to be successful in claiming 18.5 million acres of land controlled by the federal government.

Fights over public lands aren’t unusual in the West. But Utah is now going straight to the U.S. Supreme Court to wrest control of 18.5 million acres of federal land.