‘You betrayed the balance of powers’: Rep. Owens writes open letter criticizing Utah judge over redistricting ruling
Representative Burgess Owens (R-Utah) has written an open letter to Utah’s Third District Judge Dianna Gibson following her ruling on the state’s redistricting ruling last week. He accused her of acting “as the architect of Utah’s congressional map”.
Lawyers for the Utah legislature are asking the judge in Utah's redistricting case to halt the ruling that implemented Utah's new Congressional map because of some boundary issues, and because of their claim that picking the plaintiffs' map was unconstitutional.
A Third District Judge once again sided with the plaintiffs in Utah’s redistricting case last week, ruling that the Utah legislature’s redistricted map, known as map C, violated Utah’s citizen-passed, anti-gerrymandering law known as Proposition 4. The Utah Judiciary confirmed Monday, Nov. 17, that threats have been made toward judges…