SALT LAKE CITY — In the wake of the 2020 census, Utah's state legislators took control of the congressional redistricting process, sidelining a non-partisan commission created by voter-approved proposition.

The result, according to advocates, has been the division of a Democratic stronghold in Salt Lake County into four reliably Republican voting districts.

"The Utah makeup and the population, if we're truly being represented, it would likely be that we'd have three Republicans and a Democrat," said Elizabeth Rasmussen, executive director of the non-profit group Better Boundaries. "That's just the makeup of the population."

Rasmussen's organization has been supporting a lawsuit to reinstate the voter-approved proposition and restore the commission's authority over redistricting. After t

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