Fair Districting News Articles

Ping-pong politics—that's the game the Utah Legislature wants voters to play if they're ever unhappy with their elected lawmakers and what they're doing at the Capitol. Read more on cityweekly.net.

On July 11, Utah’s Supreme Court heard arguments in League of Women Voters v. Utah State Legislature. Mormon Women for Ethical Government is also a named plaintiff in this case, as well as a bipartisan group of seven individual voters. Read more on Deseret.com.

The rows of bench seats resembling church pews were filled Tuesday (July 11, 2023) at the Matheson Courthouse with concerned citizens, media and lawyers, lots of lawyers — law students, law partners, retired judges, lawyers representing the state and the plaintiffs. Read more on heraldextra.com.

The Utah Supreme Court signaled it is seriously grappling with the issue of whether the Utah State Legislature violated Utahns' constitutional rights in the redistricting process. Read more on fox13now.com.

The Utah Supreme Court grilled lawyers for the legislature and a pair of citizen advocacy groups over the powers of citizen ballot initiatives and whether Utah's legislature trampled over them in approving new congressional boundaries. Read more on fox13now.com.

The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday related to a lawsuit challenging a congressional map drawn by the GOP-controlled state Legislature that voting-rights advocates say dilutes the voting power of Democrats. Read more on axios.com.

The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a challenge of Utah’s congressional districts, drawn by the majority-Republican Legislature. Read more on SLTrib.com.

The Utah Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday over a challenge brought against the state’s recently enacted redistricting maps, though a decision in the case isn’t expected right away. Read more on Deseret.com.

The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday claiming redistricting of some of Utah’s congressional districts was illegal gerrymandering. Read more on ABC4.com.

The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to consider the state’s appeal that a lawsuit alleging lawmakers gerrymandered Utah’s congressional districts should be thrown out — and it could create real headaches for the litigation going forward. Read more on SLTrib.com.

The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case questioning if the state’s newly instated congressional district maps are constitutional. Read more on kuer.org.

In late-breaking news today, Campaign Legal Center, League of Women Voters of Utah (LWVUT) and Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) learned their gerrymandering lawsuit against the Utah Legislature would proceed to the Utah Supreme Court. Guests: Kathy Biele of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake and Laura Lewis Eyi of Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Read more on KRCL.org.

The lawsuit regarding the state’s allegedly unconstitutional congressional redistricting process is heading to the Utah Supreme Court. Read more on ABC4.com.

The Utah Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit over the state's congressional redistricting process. Read more on fox13now.com.

All four Utah representatives have been served with subpoenas in connection to a lawsuit filed over redistricting in the state. Read more on KUTV.com.

A pending lawsuit in Utah accuses the legislature of gerrymandering. Read more on ABC4.com.

A judge has once again rejected a request by lawyers for the Utah State Legislature to halt a lawsuit challenging its congressional redistricting boundaries. Read more on fox13now.com.

With the 2022 midterm elections in the rear-view mirror, Utah organizations have maintained their focus on the state’s congressional maps. Read more on heraldextra.com.

Attorneys for the Utah State Legislature have asked the Utah Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's redistricting maps for U.S. Congress. Read more on fox13now.com.

While final counting continues in Tuesday’s midterm election, the Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) are wondering what the balloting’s results might have been if Utah’s 2020 redistricting process had been conducted fairly. Read more on cachevalleydaily.com.

Most Salt Lake County voters are either independents or Democrats (i.e., not Republicans). And most Salt Lake County residents are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). In short, a majority of Salt Lake County is non-Republican/non-LDS. Read more on SLTrib.com.

A judge has denied multiple motions to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit. Read more on kslnewsradio.com.

A lawsuit asking the courts to overturn Utah's new congressional map will move forward, after a judge on Monday denied several motions to dismiss the case by the Utah Legislature. Read more on Deseret.com.

A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Utah State Legislature’s redistricting process. Read more on SLTrib.com.

A Utah judge ruled not to dismiss a lawsuit that sued to challenge the legislature's redistricting maps, that set congressional boundaries. Read more on KJZZ.com.

This week, a Utah court heard a request by state attorneys to throw out a lawsuit challenging the way the legislature redrew political boundaries through a contentious redistricting process. Read more on kcpw.org.

A judge is weighing whether to dismiss a lawsuit that asks the courts to overturn Utah's new congressional map and to require the Legislature to start the redistricting process over. Read more on KSL.com.

A judge’s ruling denying a stay clears the way for a lawsuit challenging the redistricting process in Utah to move forward. Read more on kslnewsradio.com.

The lawsuit claiming that Utah’s new congressional district boundaries are being unconstitutionally gerrymandered will move forward in court. Read more on KSLTV.com.

A lawsuit charging the Utah legislature with unfairly redistricting voter maps is headed to Third District Court Wednesday. Read more on kpcw.org.

A judge has refused to delay a lawsuit challenging the legislature's congressional redistricting maps. Read more on fox13now.com.

A lawsuit alleging that Utah’s new congressional maps are an unconstitutional gerrymander will be able to go forward without delay, a judge has ruled. Read more on SLTrib.com.

In this episode we speak with Emma Petty Addams and Jennifer Walker Thomas. MWEG is a plaintiff organization in Utah’s Gerrymandering Lawsuit and has a vision of building a more peaceful, just, and ethical world by harnessing the power of women of faith. Listen to the full podcast episode on buzzsprout.com.

A little-known and, until recently, marginal constitutional theory has become a serious attempt to destroy democracy. And Utah’s political leaders are, of course, all in. Read more on SLTrib.com.

Lawyers for the state want to delay any action on a lawsuit claiming the new congressional maps drawn by the Utah Legislature last year are illegal gerrymandering until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a controversial redistricting case from North Carolina. Read more on SLTrib.com.

The Utah State Legislature is asking a judge to halt a lawsuit challenging the state's redistricting process while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case out of North Carolina. Read more on fox13now.com.

Plaintiffs suing the Legislature and Utah officials over what they say is an illegal redistricting of Utah’s congressional boundaries have issued a response to a request that the lawsuit be dismissed. Read more on SLTrib.com.

The highly anticipated 2020 census that dictates political representation and federal funding across the country was either overcounted or undercounted in at least 14 states. Read more on Deseret.com.

Recently a New York Court ruled that Democrats who gerrymandered legislative maps were ignoring the will of voters and ordered new maps be drawn by impartial experts. Read more on SLTrib.com.

Attorneys for the Utah Legislature pushed back against a lawsuit claiming the redistricting process was rife with unconstitutional gerrymandering in a motion to dismiss last Monday. Read more on Deseret.com.

The defendants in the lawsuit over Utah’s redistricting maps filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit this week. The Utah State Legislature, Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee, and several individual elected officials named in the case argue, among other things, that the Utah Constitution places the authority and discretion for redistricting solely with the Utah Legislature. Read more on kslnewsradio.com.

Attorneys for the Utah Legislature asked a judge Monday evening to throw out a lawsuit that claimed Utah’s congressional redistricting amounted to an unconstitutional gerrymander. Read more on SLTrib.com.

Lawyers for the state of Utah are asking a judge to reject a lawsuit challenging the legislature's controversial congressional redistricting maps. Read more on fox13now.com.

When I was on active duty in the U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, I determined that the principles of balance, transparency and fair representation were important to me. They mattered to me during my time in the service, and as a wife and a parent, and they guided me for the 30 years I worked as a CPA. These are the same principles that compelled me to become a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Utah Legislature, along with Mormon Women for Ethical Government, the League of Women Voters of Utah and other individual plaintiffs. Read more on heraldextra.com.

A bipartisan mix of voters and civic organizations filed a lawsuit against the Utah legislature over the new congressional maps that were drawn last November. Read more on kpcw.org.

This week on the program, a panel of experts discuss the process undertaken last year by both the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission and the Utah Legislature to redraw Utah’s political boundaries for the next decade. Read more on kcpw.org.

I encourage citizens to support the civil suit brought by the members of League of Women Voters and the Mormon Women for Ethical Government filed against the legislature concerning the redistricting maps that have been drawn. Read more on standard.net.

Victoria Reid likes to walk. So about a month ago she left her home in Millcreek and walked about two blocks east, came across a ditch, turned south and went another half mile. Then she headed west and within 45 minutes was back home. In that short span, she’d set foot in each of the four congressional districts established in November by the Utah Legislature. Read more on SLTrib.com.

I have high praise for the lawsuit charging the Utah Legislature with partisan gerrymandering in our U.S. congressional maps. Read more on parkrecord.com.

#RoundtableTuesday with Risshan Leak and Lara Jones talk Utah women's history with Alice Burch of Sema Hadithi and Rachel Quist of SLC History. A new direction for Better Days. Meet the plaintiffs in the lawsuit over the Beehive State's new Congressional voting maps, including League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Read more on KRCL.org.

The League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and others are suing the state of Utah over the new Congressional map. Read more on KSJD.org.

A lawsuit filed against Utah lawmakers claims voters’ constitutional rights have been violated with how congressional districts were drawn and approved last year. Read more on KSLTV.com.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Utah Legislature and other leaders over redistricting maps that redrew the state’s congressional district boundaries. Read more on KUTV.com.

The League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and others are suing the state over the new congressional map saying it’s an example of an extreme partisan gerrymander. Read more on kuer.org.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), partnered with Utah attorneys from Parr Brown Gee & Loveless and Zimmerman Booher to file a lawsuit on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and individual voters in Salt Lake City to block Utah from violating voters’ will with its new congressional redistricting map. Read more on campaignlegal.org.

A coalition of voters has filed a lawsuit against the Utah Legislature over a congressional redistricting map approved last year, calling lawmakers’ action an “extreme partisan gerrymander” and “unconstitutional." Read more on GephardtDaily.com.

A lawsuit is asking the courts to overturn Utah’s new congressional map and give an independent redistricting commission the power to create political boundaries going forward. Read more on Deseret.com.

Two voting-rights groups sued the state of Utah Thursday seeking to block new redistricting maps they say unfairly solidify one-party GOP control and ignore a voter-approved independent commission. Read more on apnews.com.

The fight over Utah’s congressional boundaries is heading into the next round. Read more on kslnewsradio.com.

Several governmental accountability groups filed a lawsuit against the Utah Legislature for allegedly illegally gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts during last year’s special session, a Thursday press release from the Campaign Legal Center said. Read more on thespectrum.com.

The latest redistricting lawsuit was filed Thursday morning in Utah, where a collection of voting rights advocates and individual voters are fighting what they say is an extreme example of partisan gerrymandering. Read more on thefulcrum.us.

Ultimately, the courts will decide whether or not the congressional boundaries drawn by the Utah Legislature are an illegal gerrymander. Read more on SLTrib.com.

A lawsuit has been filed against the state of Utah over its controversial redistricting measures. Read more on fox13now.com.