Judge Dianna Gibson issued a 79-page ruling August 25, 2025, declaring 🏜️Utah Legislature 'unconstitutionally repealed Proposition 4' and violated 'people's fundamental right to reform redistricting.' The ruling permanently bans current congressional maps from future elections and requires new boundaries by September 24, 2025 that comply with voter-approved anti-gerrymandering standards.

Trump responded August 27, 2025, calling 🏜️Utah ruling 'absolutely Unconstitutional' while simultaneously pushing 🤠Texas Republicans to create 5 new GOP districts through mid-decade gerrymandering. His contradictory positions expose partisan calculation: constitutional redistricting when helping Republicans, judicial activism when helping Democrats get competitive seats.

🏜️Utah voters approved Better Boundaries initiative 50.3% to 49.7% in November 2018, creating independent redistricting commission with anti-gerrymandering standards. Republican supermajority Legislature gutted the measure in 2020, making commission advisory only and adopting maps that split Salt Lake County into four districts, eliminating competitive seats.

Current 🏜️Utah maps allow Republicans to win 100% of congressional delegation with approximately 65% of statewide vote share, while Democrats receive zero representation despite consistent 35% support. Independent redistricting commission's 2021 proposal included at least one potentially Democratic district, but GOP legislators rejected recommendations for four safe Republican seats.

🤠Texas redistricting effort urged by Trump aims to flip 5 Democratic seats to Republican control through mid-decade map manipulation, breaking traditional once-per-decade redistricting cycle. 🌴California Democrats responded with counter-gerrymandering proposal potentially creating 5 new Democratic seats, escalating nationwide redistricting arms race ahead of 2026 midterms.

Trump attacked 🏜️Utah's 'Radical Left Judges' and demanded GOP 'STAY UNITED' to keep 'four terrific Republican Congressmen' while praising 🤠Texas efforts to create Republican advantages. Senator Mike Lee echoed Trump's position, arguing 'Legislative districts are supposed to be drawn by state legislatures, not unelected independent commissions designed to give Democrats an edge.'

🏜️Utah Supreme Court ruled July 11, 2024, that Legislature exceeded authority by significantly altering independent redistricting commission structure, finding lawmakers 'impaired the core redistricting reform enacted under Proposition 4.' The justices sent remedies back to district court, resulting in Gibson's order for constitutional maps by September deadline.

Rep. Blake Moore, R-🏜️Utah, became first House GOP leadership member to contradict Trump's redistricting wishes, opposing 🤠Texas mid-decade gerrymandering while predicting '🌽Illinois is going to do it worse, in favor of the Democrats, and all of a sudden it's just a free-for-all.' Moore stopped short of supporting legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting despite opposing the practice.