Washington, D.C. — Today, a Utah District Court will hold a hearing on motions for summary judgement in League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature, a lawsuit challenging Utah’s congressional map as a partisan gerrymander. The lawsuit was filed in 2022, after the Republican-led Utah Legislature ignored a ballot measure enacted by Utahns to have an independent commission draw the state’s congressional map, and instead Republican legislators drew their own gerrymandered congressional map. 

“Utahns made it clear at the ballot box in 2018 that they want to get politics out of the map drawing process. Yet, power-hungry politicians in the Republican-led legislature ignored the will of the people and enacted an egregious partisan gerrymander that carves up the most populous, diverse area of the state, silencing the voices of those voters,” said John Bisognano, President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). “This is a clear-cut case, and the court should order that the legislature’s actions to undermine the will of the people were unlawful, and call for a new, fair map to be drawn that accurately reflects the will of Utahns.”

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