Utah Reps. Maloy, Owens ask federal court to block new court-ordered congressional map
Another wrinkle has surfaced in Utah’s ongoing redistricting legal battle.
Two members of Utah’s all-Republican congressional delegation — Reps. Celeste Maloy and Burgess Owens — along with nearly a dozen local leaders and sheriffs have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to throw out the state’s court-ordered congressional map that created one Democratic and three Republican districts.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah names the state’s top election official, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, as a defendant. It asks for a three-judge panel to declare the state’s court-ordered map as “unconstitutionally imposed and agreed to by state actors — specifically a state district judge and the Lieutenant Governor — with no authority” under federal or state law to impose a map “other than one adopted by the Legislature.”
Owens and Maloy did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday morning. But they and the suit’s other plaintiffs announced its filing in an op-ed for the Deseret News published Monday evening, in which they wrote they don’t allege “malice, bad faith or improper motive” on Henderson’s part.
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