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# Utah's Map-tastrophe
- URL: https://utahpolitics.news/podcasts/podcast-utahs-map-tastrophe/
- Published: 2025-09-17T21:16:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-02T19:02:13.000Z
- Author: Bryan Schott
- Tags: Podcasts, Redistricting, Legislature

In this episode of "Special Session":

The Utah Supreme Court denied the Utah Legislature's request for an emergency stay to keep the state's 2021 congressional maps, deemed illegal, in place.  
  
If you needed any more proof why lawmakers want to keep control of drawing Utah's political maps, our analysis proves that all three of the maps produced by the independent commission in 2021 would have produced at least one strong Democratic district.  
  
Republicans thought they had found a way to keep the current maps in place, but it turns out they forgot to do the reading.

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