Utah's redistricting fight heads to federal court; anti-gerrymandering plaintiffs ask to intervene
A federal court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that two of Utah’s U.S. representatives have filed in hopes of blocking the state’s court-ordered congressional map from being used in the 2026 elections.
A three-judge panel is scheduled to hear Reps. Celeste Maloy and Burgess Owens’ request on Feb. 18 at the Orrin G. Hatch U.S. District Courthouse in Salt Lake City.
The lawsuit — filed by Maloy, Owens and nearly a dozen local leaders and sheriffs from across the state — names the state’s top election official, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, as a defendant. It asks for a three-judge panel to void the state’s court-ordered map, which created one Democratic and three Republican districts.
The lawsuit argues the map was “unconstitutionally imposed and agreed to by state actors — specifically a state district judge and the lieutenant governor — with no authority” under federal or state law to impose a map “other than one adopted by the Legislature.”
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/02/10/utah-redistricting-federal-court-anti-gerrymandering-plaintiffs/
