The Utah Supreme Court will rule Thursday on a case testing the extent of the Legislature’s ability to gerrymander political boundaries and rewrite voter-approved ballot initiatives.
A year after hearing oral arguments, justices will rule on whether Legislature overstepped in disenfranchising voters and rewriting ballot initiatives.in a case testing the extent of the Legislature’s ability to gerrymander political boundaries and rewrite voter-approved initiatives, the justices have made their decision and will issue their opinion in the case Thursday.
The Legislature rewrote that law, watering it down to the point where the maps provided unanimously by the independent commission were merely recommendations that the Legislature could ignore the commission and draw the lines as they saw fit. If the Supreme Court rules the maps were invalid, they could send the issue back to a lower court or tell the Legislature to redraw the congressional boundaries . New boundaries could not take effect until the 2026 election.
“When do the people have the last word?” Petersen asked. “You’re saying they can’t have the last word through the initiative process. People structurally don’t ever have the last word.”
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