{"id":120527,"date":"2025-11-10T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=120527"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:20:08","slug":"utah-judge-denies-gop-passed-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=120527","title":{"rendered":"Utah judge denies GOP-passed congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan that created two more-competitive districts in the state \u2014 a win for Democrats who thought the map did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>In denying the new map, the judge put in place one of two options offered by plaintiffs that creates a solidly-Democratic district that covers Salt Lake City, giving the party its second win in the redistricting wars that have swept the nation ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>In her ruling, issued minutes before a midnight deadline, Judge Dianna Gibson said the Republican map \u201cfails to abide by and conform with the requirements\u201d of a 2018 voter-approved ballot measure that created nonpartisan redistricting standards for the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>In October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/06\/utah-new-map-redistricting-00595076\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Republican state legislators passed the map the judge ultimately denied<\/u><\/a>, which created two competitive districts that still favored Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah case centers around a voter-approved measure against partisan gerrymandering in the state passed in 2018, one that Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc4.com\/news\/politics\/inside-utah-politics\/utah-republican-party-not-getting-signatures-for-referendum-on-map-c\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>are collecting signatures to undo<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Utah is just one piece in the broader redistricting puzzle. Already, Republicans have drawn nine favorable districts in four states, with others on the horizon. Democrats got their first win in the battle last week, when California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that could net the party five more seats.<\/p>\n<p>Several Utah Democrats are inching toward entering the race. Former Rep. Ben McAdams, the only Democrat to represent Utah in federal office this century, is expected to announce his candidacy soon, according to three people with direct knowledge of his thinking. He has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/centrist-democrats-utah-house-00631729\" target=\"_blank\"><u>garnered support from Welcome PAC<\/u><\/a>, a national group which backs more moderate candidates over progressives.<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat has not represented Utah in Congress since 2021, when McAdams left office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan that created two more-competitive districts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Utah judge denies GOP-passed congressional map - Marin &amp; 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