Legislative attorneys asked the Utah Supreme Court to halt a lower court judge’s order for lawmakers to draw new state congressional districts and consider overturning the district judge’s ruling.

In doing so, lawmakers find themselves back before five justices who last year unanimously ruled that the Legislature had to respect the will of voters when they pass ballot initiatives and violated the Utah Constitution when they repealed the voter-passed Better Boundaries initiative, known as Proposition 4.

That 2018 initiative sought to create an independent redistricting commission and put other limits on how legislators draw the state’s political boundaries, including prohibiting maps that partisanly favored one party over the other.

Now, attorneys for the Legislature argue that there i

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