The Utah judge who has caught the ire of many Utah Republican lawmakers for her repeated rulings against them in the state’s yearslong redistricting legal battle issued a legal analysis Friday explaining why she has denied lawmakers’ request to push pause on the state’s new court-ordered congressional map .

In her 11-page decision , 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson wrote she rejected the Utah Legislature’s preferred map C because it not only failed to adhere to neutral map-drawing criteria under Proposition 4 (a 2018 voter-approved ballot initiative that created an independent redistricting process) to the greatest extent practicable, but also because it was drawn with political data — which is also a violation of Proposition 4.

“The undisputed evidence presented in this

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