The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether courts should allow the state’s Republican-majority Legislature to carve up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County into four congressional districts.
In opening arguments Tuesday, Utah’s attorneys did not lean into the concept at the heart of North Carolina’s arguments, known as independent state legislature theory; however, Utah’s four congressional members relied heavily on the theory in a brief they filed in support of the state.
But similar to attorneys representing North Carolina, Utah’s argued redistricting was a legislative matter and court intervention threatens the separation of powers between courts and legislatures. The state tempered its arguments Tuesday. As Republican state lawmakers sat behind her, attorney Taylor Meehan acknowledged the Legislature did not have absolute power to draw maps. But she warned that court intervention risked injecting arbitrary standards into redistricting beyond the“It’s replete in their claim that there are too many Republicans in the districts, and that is unfair,” Meehan said of the voters’ case.
Disagreement between attorneys representing Utah and the voters suing arose over how to interpret the‘s 2019 ruling that partisan gerrymandering wasn’t a matter for federal courts to decide. Attorneys for Utah argued that the case suggested redistricting was for lawmakers.
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