What a couple of days it has been in Utah politics.
Just before midnight on Monday night, Judge Dianna Gibson dropped a political bomb that's going to scramble everything we thought we knew about Utah's congressional races. She rejected the legislature's gerrymandered map and instead implemented one with Utah's first Democratic-leaning congressional district in recent memory.
That blue donut you're seeing in the middle of all that red on social media? That's the new First Congressional District, covering most of Salt Lake County.
In this episode of Special Session, we dig into the new map and a potential constitutional conflict brewing under the surface. There's a compelling argument that Prop 4 itself violates the Utah Constitution. We've also got Republicans threatening to impeach not just Judge Gibson, but possibly Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson too.
Democrat Ben McAdams is expected to announce he's running for Congress this week. This could be the most crowded, most expensive, most bruising primary fight in Utah history—assuming the map survives legal challenges.
We break down all of it: why the judge rejected the legislature's map, whether this ruling will survive appeal, which Republican incumbents run where, who's jumping into the Democratic primary, and what it means if control of Congress comes down to a single seat in Utah.
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