.RobertGehrke: Utah's redistricting maps gerrymander Utah's non-LDS population into four separate pieces. Critics could argue that’s illegal, but they probably won't.
As political groups in the state weight legal challenges to the Legislature’s new redistricting maps, Gehrke considers another strategy: grabbing Utah’s third rail.Over the last few weeks, the group Better Boundaries has been sending out fundraising solicitations, dangling the intriguing possibility that they might go to court to challenge the gerrymandered redistricting maps approved by the Utah Legislature.
“We’re not going to do anything without it being very thoughtful and being very clear that there is an achievable legal path,” Wright said. “We’re not Pollyanna we know there’s not an easy legal path.” Here’s why that poses a problem: As you may remember from your state history class, when Utah became a state, Congress was very wary of enabling an LDS theocracy and took steps to limit the church’s dominance in civic life.
This is actually not a new concept, and it’s not my idea. It has been kicked around in some legal circles for years. I’m told that after redistricting 10 years ago this same legal argument was considered and abandoned for a couple reasons.
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