SALT LAKE CITY — Congressional redistricting ordered by a judge is getting underway with the first of a pair of public hearings to react to proposed maps.

"We are doing this under the court’s order and under protest," the Utah State Legislature's Redistricting Committee Co-Chair, Sen. Scott Sandall, R-Tremonton, said at the beginning of the hearing.

On Monday, the redistricting committee also reacted to a bill introduced potentially for the upcoming special session that seeks to change how the process works in the state. The bill, proposed by Sen. Brady Brammer , R-Highland, would create a "statistical formula" for redistricting by putting "partisan symmetry" into code.

"It is used to measure partisan lines and determine if a party has a chance to win a seat and determine if the lines

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