Opinion: Who is funding the campaign to reverse Prop 4?

On Nov. 10, I joined a crowd at the Kaysville City Hall for one of the mandatory hearings the Utah Republican Party hosted in its bid to overturn Proposition 4. Proposition 4, passed by voters via a citizen ballot initiative in 2018, established an independent redistricting commission and binding criteria for new maps. In other words, it codified a process designed to do away with partisan gerrymandering.

You can find a history of what’s happened with the quest for fair maps since the initiative passed here . In brief, the maps the Legislature adopted after the 2020 census contravened both the intent and letter of the law. The most egregiously gerrymandered among them — the congressional map — became the subject of a lawsuit. After years of litigation and appeals, the Utah judiciary gav