Utah’s redistricting authority belongs to the Legislature. That structure was already strained by the Utah Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in League of Women Voters v. Utah Legislature. What happened afterward under Judge Dianna Gibson went far beyond routine judicial administration or ordinary procedural mistakes.

It was a sequence of decisions that cannot be explained as oversight or delay. Each step limited public involvement, restricted legislative options and positioned the plaintiffs and their consultants to secure the map they wanted.

Normal procedural irregularities are corrected on appeal. What occurred here was not normal. It was a pattern of choices that shaped the outcome long before the ruling was issued.

After the Supreme Court remanded the case in July 2024, the court took

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