Utah judge rejects GOP redistricting map, creating Democratic-leaning district that could end Republican control of all four congressional seats in 2026.

Democratic Utah Sen. Kathleen Riebe announced a U.S. House bid in the wake of a controversial court decision redrawing the state's four congressional districts.

A district judge installed a new map late Monday night that would likely award Democrats a seat in deep-red Utah.

While Democrats praise a Utah judge's ruling in a yearslong gerrymandering lawsuit, Republicans say the ruling reflects “the arrogance of a judge playing king from the bench.”

Utahans looking at the multiple rainbow colored redistricting maps currently before Judge Dianna Gibson in the litigation challenging the shapes of Utah’s four U. S. congressional districts could easily wonder if they were experiencing the sunspot afterimages one sees after looking at the sun.