SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge said she will rule in the coming days on proposed maps that redraw the state’s congressional boundaries.

During a hearing Tuesday, 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson heard additional arguments about tests and standards the Republican-controlled Legislature used in drawing its map, which lawmakers approved last month.

Attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government — whose lawsuit prompted Gibson to throw out the state’s congressional map , kicking off a hurried process to create a new one — argued the Legislature’s new map inappropriately relied on several tests that don’t work in a politically lopsided state like Utah.

“I think the evidence has shown in this case that the standards that the Legislature

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