SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Legislature announced it will move forward and redraw the state's Congressional district map after a judge struck it down earlier this week .

In a statement issued Thursday, Senate President J. Stuart Adams and House Speaker Mike Schultz claimed that while the ruling by Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson was "misguided," the Legislature would "move forward" with redrawing the map.

In her ruling, Gibson sided with several groups that challenged the legislature's override of Proposition 4, a citizen ballot initiative that created an independent redistricting commission to draw maps for Congress, the legislature and state school board.

Legislative leaders claim that only state lawmakers have the power to draw redistricting lines and that the commission f

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