SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders filed an emergency petition to the Utah Supreme Court on Friday, urging the state’s top court to issue a stay in the 3rd District Court’s order to redraw the state’s congressional maps.

“Time is of the essence in obtaining an answer,” lawyers for the state wrote in the document. “The remedial order harms the Legislature, and disregards what the district court has determined is the proper will of the people, by requiring the Legislature to draw an alternative map using a process that does not comply with Proposition 4. To be meaningful, extraordinary relief must avoid that harm.”

It asks that a decision be handed down by Sept. 15.

The appeal was filed after 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson denied a stay in the case earlier this week . She ordered that Utah l

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