SALT LAKE CITY — All eyes are on Utah’s Capitol as lawmakers have been ordered to redraw the state’s congressional maps.
That decision late Monday from 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson brings Utah into a heated national conversation about gerrymandering and how congressional districts should be shaped.
Jason Perry, who directs the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, called Gibson’s ruling a “big decision because it’s going into uncharted territory.”
“We’ve not had a court come back and say, your lines are not appropriate,” Perry said. “That’s a really interesting and new question, not just for our legislature, but also for our court.”
Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, speaks with KSL TV on Tuesday, Aug. 26,