Current congressional maps drawn by the Utah Legislature in defiance of a passed voter initiative banning gerrymandering will, for now, not be reinstated, the Utah Supreme Court said in a ruling issued Monday evening.

Attorneys for lawmakers asked earlier this month that justices pause the portion of a district court ruling that would have kept the boundaries in place until the Legislature adopts new ones and any appeals of the ruling conclude. If the high court had agreed, it would have opened up the possibility of the current maps remaining in place for at least the 2026 midterm elections, if not longer.

Under the Better Boundaries initiative, or Proposition 4 — passed by voters in 2018, repealed by legislators in 2020 and reinstated by a lower court last month — districts were requi

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