The Republican-led Utah state legislature remains committed to combating the legal challenge it now faces over the 2021 congressional maps it drew, which were recently thrown out by a third district judge.

In a press release on Thursday, the legislature’s leadership said Judge Dianna Gibson’s ruling “unconstitutionally ties the Legislature’s hands by mandating certain redistricting criteria when the U.S. and Utah constitutions leave it to the people’s representatives in the legislature to redistrict.”

In an interview Thursday, House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, told the Deseret News that Article Nine of the Utah Constitution could not be clearer on whose role it is to establish congressional district boundaries.

Schultz said the Utah Constitution “clearly says” the legislature is i

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