SALT LAKE CITY – Better Boundaries issued the following statement in response to the lawsuit to remove Amendment D from Utah Ballot.

SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds rallied on Utah’s Capitol Hill, urging voters to reject a proposed constitutional amendment on citizen ballot initiatives.

Join us at the State Capitol today, MONDAY AUGUST 26, at 12:00 PM to launch our VOTE NO campaign to defeat the constitutional amendment proposed by our state legislature.

The Utah Legislature and a group of extreme politicians are working to take away your constitutional rights. Email your legislator and let them know you support Utahns’ constitutional right to citizen-led initiatives.

Recorded Tuesday, August 6, 2024. Featuring: Katie Wright, Better Boundaries Executive Director and Mark Graber, Campaign Legal Center Senior Director

Utah News Dispatch – The Utah Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday, which handed a major win to plaintiffs in an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit, was a “watershed moment.”

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Supreme Court ruled that the state Legislature’s power to repeal or amend citizen initiatives is not unlimited after it considered a years-long court case over the state’s redistricting practices.

The New York Times – Utah’s State Legislature most likely violated the State Constitution in 2021 when it ignored a ballot measure calling for fair maps and instead drew a gerrymandered map of the state’s four congressional districts, the State Supreme Court said Thursday.

The Hill – The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday the GOP-controlled state Legislature was wrong to essentially bypass an independent redistricting commission created through a voter-approved ballot initiative and establish its own House maps instead.