Republican legislators are expected to repeal a controversial bill clamping down on public employee unions when they meet in a special session Tuesday, averting a showdown at the ballot box next year and the potential that voters could hand the Legislature a loss by repealing the measure.

They are also planning to postpone the period for candidates to file for office — giving them time to ask the Utah Supreme Court to throw out a new court-ordered congressional map that creates a Democratic-leaning seat — and to propose a constitutional amendment weakening the citizens’ right to ballot initiatives.

The repeal of the anti-labor law, passed earlier this year, has been debated internally by Republican lawmakers for months and averts what would have been a costly campaign, the potentia

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