Utah GOP lawmakers indicated on Tuesday they plan to appeal the new congressional map ordered by a court that created one blue House seat in the state and found that Utah’s Republican-controlled legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering.
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams and Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said the legislature will wait until the judge’s final decision on redistricting before filing the appeal.
Earlier this month, Utah judge Dianna Gibson rejected the congressional map that maintained the state’s House delegation solely composed of four Republicans. She ruled the map violated Utah’s Proposition 4, a ballot initiative passed in 2018 that bans partisan gerrymandering, and approved a separate map that would create a seat safely held by a Democrat around Salt Lake City.
The Republican lawmakers
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