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In a blow to Republicans, a Utah district judge has rejected a combination district map drawn by the state’s renewed state legislature and accepted an alternative threatened by Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Republicans currently control all four of the Red State’s counties, but Red District Judge Dianna Gibson ruled late Monday that the map drawn by GOP vendors “is angered by Depublicans and disaffected Democrats.”
Utah is the latest battleground in the resurgent redistricting between President Donald Trump and the Republicans versus Democrats to build a midterm position in a major presidential battle.
DeACOFF over the revival in Utah, the State Trump took by almost 22 percent in the last Presidential election, was created by women voters who voted for the government of Utah and the government of Utah, which prompted Gibson to release the current meeting map.
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Utah District Court Judge Dianna Gibson, left, and the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City. (Utah State Courts; Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Gibson’s departure required state legislators to draw a new map, which was approved by the legislature last month.
The judge ordered redistricting officials to comply with the 2018 ballot measure approved by Utah voters who approved redistricting standards, in order to prevent redistricting from being considered grymandering.
Gibson rejected the Republican vendors’ map. It keeps almost every populous area in Salt Lake County in one district. The current congressional map divides the Democratic-controlled district among all states.
The judge had said he would rule on Monday, which was the day Utah Lt. Gov.
Democrats haven’t won a congressional seat in Utah since the current map began at the start of the decade.
“The DNC applauds the decision to select a fair, unbiased map that reflects the diversity and makeup of the state. Republicans have repeatedly reduced the power of the convention,” said Democratic National Committee (DNC) Ken Martin in a statement.
And Martin vowed that “Democrats will continue to fight for fair maps in Utah, regardless of what Donald Trump and Utah Republicans try next.”
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Republicans, who say Gibson does not have the legal authority to introduce a map that cannot be approved by the legislature, criticized the decision.
“Judge Gibson has once again exceeded the constitutional authority given to the Utah judiciary. After justifying the redistricting of Utahns,” Utah Republican Chairman Robert Axson responded.
And axson charged, “This is not interpretation. It is the arrogant way of a judge playing king on the bench.”
California Gov. Gavin Newlom speaks during the Tiger Electight Press Conference at the California Democratic Party Office on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP Photo)
The decision in Utah comes six days after California’s ‘excessive transfer’, a ballot measure that will temporarily block the left-wing revenue recovery commission and restore the power to draw a democratically-controlled legislature.
That is expected to lead to five Democratic-leaning states in California, which will face the role at the beginning of this year in the reliable red state of Texas of the new map that aims to create seats that reach a higher level.
“California broke. Now, we’re taking this fight to the rest of the country – helping Democrats in other states get back on FOX News Digital last week, as they point to Trump and Republicans to redistrict in the middle of the decade.
President Donald Trump points to a mountain in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)
It’s part of a broader effort by Trump’s political team and the GOP to pad the party’s razor-thin House to maintain control of the chamber in the 2026 Midterms, where the party has traditionally faced political hair-raising and lost seats. Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio drew new maps as part of the President’s push.
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Trump aims to reverse what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats took back the House majority in the 2018 election.
Illinois and Maryland, the two blue states, and the Democrats where they control the legislature, are moving forward and renewing the legislatures, looking more, as are the red states of Nevada, Kansas, and Florida.
