SALT LAKE CITY — The plaintiffs in the lawsuit over independent redistricting are going back to court, asking a judge to grant an injunction, blocking a new law the Utah State Legislature passed in special session from going into effect.
"Once again, Defendants had an opportunity to follow Proposition 4, and once again Defendants have chosen to undermine it instead," wrote David Reymann, the attorney for the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government, in the filing obtained by FOX 13 News.
Reymann wrote that Senate Bill 1011 impairs the anti-gerrymandering goal of Proposition 4, the citizen ballot initiative for independent redistricting that voters approved in 2018. When the Utah State Legislature overrode Prop. 4 and replaced it with a "compromise" bill, the