SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders are scrambling to figure out how to get an approved map ready in time to be used in the 2026 congressional elections after a judge ordered them to redraw the state’s current map.

The ruling , issued Monday by 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson, states that the current districting map can’t be used “in any future elections.” It also proposed a timeline giving the Utah Legislature 30 days to enact new political boundaries that comply with Proposition 4, which created an independent redistricting commission.

On Friday, attorneys representing the Utah Legislature, as well as those representing the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government, spent nearly two hours discussing what happens next.

‘Uncharted territory’

Gibson said her ruli

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