⏰ Tick Tock
Days until the court-mandated deadline for lawmakers to submit new congressional maps (9/24/2025) - 29
Days until Election Day (11/4/2025) - 70
Days to the start of the 2026 Utah Legislature (1/20/2026) - 147
Days until the 2026 midterm elections (11/3/2026) - 434
Days until the 2028 presidential election (11/7/2028) - 1,169
A deadline with teeth in gerrymandering ruling
Having covered Utah politics for more than a quarter century, I’m usually as confident as Macbeth that Birnam Wood won’t budge—until once in a while, the trees move and I have to rewrite the act.
Yesterday in this space I argued that if the judge in the gerrymandering case ruled against them, all the Utah Legislature had to do was run out the clock to prevent new congressional maps from going into effect for the 2026 election.
What I did not anticipate was the extremely clever maneuver by Judge Dianna Gibson that could keep the legislature from dodging new maps.
