MWEG in the News

Women from across Idaho joined a Zoom call on a Wednesday evening in mid-September. There were teachers. A school board member. One woman who is running for office, and one who ran in 2018. They gathered virtually from their corners of the state to talk about public schools — and how they, as members of the Idaho chapter of Mormon Women for Ethical Government, could influence education policy. Read more on IdahoCapitalSun.com.

The word “activist” tends to scare off a lot of people. But working for change is more than protests and marches. Listen to the full podcast episode on BYURadio.com.

Arizona voters will have 10 ballot measures to decide this Election Day. Read more on AZCentral.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.

More than 150 years ago, Seraph Young made history when she cast her ballot in Salt Lake City — the first American woman to vote. In 1896, after helping to put women’s enfranchisement into Utah’s Constitution when it was granted statehood that same year, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first woman to be a member of the Utah Senate. Read more on SLTrib.com.

Welcome to Civic Season!

What is Civic Season, you ask? Civic Season is a national movement to commemorate and celebrate the creation and development of the United States. Read more on Deseret.com.

Three candidates, each vying for the opportunity to represent Utah’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, gathered in a Utah Valley University lecture hall Tuesday evening to discuss policy issues ranging from voting rights to immigration. 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.

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.

Today Representative Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District introduced H.R. 6751, the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument Establishment Act of 2022. This legislation will designate Avi Kwa Ame as a National Monument and permanently protect nearly 450,000 acres of biologically diverse and culturally significant lands within the Mojave Desert. Representative Titus previously led pushes to designate Tule Springs, Basin & Range, and Gold Butte. Read more on redlakenationnews.com.

On another Arizona matter, Mormon Women for Ethical Government voiced support for a recently defeated energy package that would have required electric utilities to cut their carbon emissions to combat climate change. Read more on SLTrib.com.

It’s a common mistake made by visitors to Texas’ Gulf Coast beaches: parking too close to the surf. At the end of a day enjoying the sun and waves, beachgoers might find their car wheels half (or fully) submerged. Careful preparation can prevent an unanticipated and potentially disastrous end to the day. We need to approach the process of certifying presidential elections with similar caution. Read more on statesman.com.

A Utah Democratic leader referenced a Latter-day Saint apostle’s words on the Constitution while calling out Republicans for censuring two of their own for their participation in the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. Read more on Deseret.com.

When Arizona voters approved a measure in 2020 that would have increased school funding by raising income taxes on higher earners, they did so by a comfortable 52-48% margin. Read more on CronkiteNews.AZPBS.org.