Utah lawmakers will call themselves into a special session to propose a constitutional amendment overriding portions of the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling that the Legislature cannot upend voters’ efforts to change laws via a ballot initiative, top leaders announced Monday.
The special session is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon while the House minority leader is out of state at the Democratic National Convention.
It comes after justices unanimously decided in July that the Legislature overstepped its authority when it rewrote a 2018 voter-approved ballot initiative establishing an independent redistricting process. The Legislature then drew its own congressional maps that split the most progressive and populous county, Salt Lake County, into four separate congressional districts.
Legislative leaders reacted to the recent ruling with anger, calling it “one of the worst outcomes we have ever seen from the Utah Supreme Court.”
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Written by EMILY ANDERSON STERN, Salt Lake Tribune.
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