Overview

• The League of Women Voters, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and individual plaintiffs filed a motion in 3rd District Court seeking a preliminary injunction.
• The request asks Judge Dianna Gibson to bar Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson from accepting the application, issuing signature packets, or sending the measure to lawmakers.
• The Utah GOP proposal would gather roughly 70,000 signatures and route a repeal of Proposition 4 to the Republican-majority Legislature rather than to voters.
• The lieutenant governor’s office has posted the application but has not approved it for constitutionality, and legislative leaders have until October 29 to respond to the complaint.
• Plaintiffs also challenge the Legislature’s new three-test redistricting statute, and Republicans have launched a separate referendum to overturn the map lawmakers recently passed.