Prop. 4 plaintiffs ask judge to block new redistricting law

SALT LAKE CITY — Voter-rights groups suing the Utah State Legislature over Proposition 4 have asked a judge to block a new law passed in special session on redistricting.

Senate Bill 1011 imposes three tests to determine whether a map is fair and meets the criteria of the law. But attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government argued it is another way of getting around Prop. 4, which voters approved in 2018.

"The legislature has done, in effect, the same thing again," said Aseem Mulji, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.

Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson upheld Prop. 4, the citizen ballot initiative on independent redistricting, throwing out the state's current congressional maps and ordering new ones to be drawn. The Republican supermajor