Blake Moore helped create Utah’s redistricting commission. Now he says it’s gone beyond the original goal

WASHINGTON — Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, has long believed in redistricting reform. He wrote about the concept while in graduate school, and he was inspired by Ronald Reagan’s support to establish commissions to draw states’ congressional boundaries.

It was those beliefs that inspired Moore to get involved with Better Boundaries in 2017, before he was elected to Congress, to create an independent redistricting commission in Utah to prevent gerrymandering. Moore was one of the original signatories on the application to put Proposition 4 on the ballot, which would later be passed as an anti-gerrymandering law.

This law became the legal basis for a judge’s recent decision to throw out Utah’s congressional map and redraw the lines before next year’s midterm elections.

But, Moore said, what