But Utah courts are now invalidating the legislature's amendments to that earlier ballot initiative and to Utah's existing congressional district maps, even though nothing in the Utah constitution compels or even allows that result. And even though one provision in particular, Article 9 of the Utah Constitution actually requires legislative districts, including congressional districts, to be drawn by the legislature. not by some nameless, faceless commission consisting of people who, as well educated and well intentioned as they might be, have never been elected by anybody and don't serve accountable to the voters of Utah. (05:08–05:16)
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Asserts that Article 9 of the Utah Constitution mandates legislative districts be drawn by the legislature.
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