Utah Republicans appear to be readying articles of impeachment against a state judge who ruled the congressional maps they had redrawn were unconstitutional gerrymanders and in violation of a ballot initiative passed by voters seven years ago.

On Monday, Judge Dianna Gibson rejected congressional boundaries offered by Republicans in a lawsuit over the party originally drawing maps improperly following the last U.S. Census. Despite voters backing a ballot initiative in 2018 that created an independent, nonpartisan commission for drawing maps, the GOP-run state legislature ignored the will of the people, reducing the powers of that commission and essentially disregarding its proposal in 2020, drawing its own maps instead.

“In 2018, Utahns exercised their fundamental constitutional right

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