SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) -- On Monday, the Utah Legislature's lawyers filed a motion for stay with the Third District Judge on her order to redraw congressional district maps in 30 days. Lawyers for both sides were also in court for a status conference hashing out whether they can agree on a new timeline for the order.

Judge Dianna Gibson ruled Monday that the Legislature unconstitutionally overrode a citizen ballot initiative by enacting its own maps.

The ruling was a major decision from the lower courts, revealing they deem Utah’s Congressional boundaries from H.B. 2004, which made the 2021 Congressional Map, were enacted unconstitutionally. Therefore, it cannot “lawfully govern future elections,” and the legislature must redistrict a new map.

Judge Gibson ruled that Proposition 4 is the

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