SALT LAKE CITY — A legislative redistricting meeting devolved into partisan bickering Wednesday, as Republicans and Democrats sought to paint experts retained by the other side as biased.

The only two Democrats on the Legislative Redistricting Committee, Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla and Rep. Doug Owens, presented a proposed congressional map of their own to add to the five maps commissioned by the GOP chairs of the committee earlier this week. This comes after a judge invalidated the state’s current map , launching a hurried process to create a new one before next year’s election.

While presenting the new map to the committee, Owens, D-Millcreek, said Democrats “strongly suspect” that Sean Trende, the expert hired by the GOP committee chairs to draw the majority’s prop

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