Ihave been a registered Republican in Utah for 50 years. I have also been a Deseret News print subscriber for nearly that long. I am distressed that amid the heated critiques of the recent rulings of Judge Dianna Gibson, scant attention has been paid to why fairness in redistricting matters.

I am also a recently retired Utah trial attorney with 42 years of experience. Our American trial procedures have a great virtue: All trial participants get to be heard and have their points considered in a meaningful way. That virtue helps to preserve peace, even when a party loses. We live in a pluralistic society, and it is not possible for everyone’s preferred choices to be enacted. But fundamental to preserving a civil society with at least relative harmony is the notion that everyone affected by

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