SALT LAKE CITY (KSL.com) — More than a year after the Utah Supreme Court said lawmakers overreached by changing a ballot initiative on redistricting, a lower court judge ruled Monday that the current maps can’t be used “in any future elections” and gave lawmakers 30 days to enact new political boundaries that comply with the initiative creating an independent redistricting commission.

The decision comes amid an ongoing national debate about gerrymandering, as Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s maps in an effort to pick up more Republican seats going into the 2026 midterms, and California has taken steps to retaliate.

In a 76-page ruling issued Monday evening, 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson wrote that Proposition 4 is the law of the land in Utah, despite a 2021 law alter

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