Utah Legislature

After reforms to Utah’s vote-by-mail system earlier this year, what has changed for this fall’s municipal elections?

Several high-profile Republicans started a campaign to let state lawmakers vote to repeal Prop 4. That’s the 2018 citizen-approved ballot initiative at the center of the redistricting and gerrymandering fight.

An analysis by the Utah Defense Attorney Association found that the Legislature passed 165 bills over the last five years to increase criminal penalties. Yet, crime statistics don’t seem to reflect lawmakers’ output.

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.

Were the standards passed in the special session needed clarity or “a wolf in sheep's clothing?” Plaintiffs in the redistricting case immediately responded in court.

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.

The families of two transgender minors who sued over the 2022 law have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit. But at the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear similar cases from Idaho and West Virginia.

The Legislature faces an Oct. 6 deadline to vote on a new congressional map in Utah’s court-ordered redistricting.

Ohana Beginnings es una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Utah que apoya a madres jóvenes y solteras, con énfasis en ayudarlas a ser autosuficientes mediante la educación.

The public will have 10 days to weigh in on the proposed maps before the Utah Legislature picks one Oct. 6. Then the map goes back to court.

Five new congressional maps are public. Utah’s biggest county is still getting split up, and the GOP could still bake in an electoral advantage.