{"id":67082,"date":"2026-02-23T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/utah-house-voting-map-that-helps-democrats-can-be-used-federal-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:59:56","slug":"utah-house-voting-map-that-helps-democrats-can-be-used-federal-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/utah-house-voting-map-that-helps-democrats-can-be-used-federal-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah House voting map that helps Democrats can be used, federal court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court turns aside GOP request to block new map, second setback in recent days for state\u2019s Republicans<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/utah\">Utah<\/a> voting districts that give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> an improved shot at winning a US House seat can be used in this year\u2019s election, a federal court ruled Monday while turning aside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> request to block the new map.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling marked the second setback in recent days for Republicans, who also lost an appeal at Utah\u2019s state supreme court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/utah-house-voting-map-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court turns aside GOP request to block new map, second setback in recent days for state\u2019s Republicans New Utah voting districts that give Democrats an improved shot at winning a US House seat can be used in this year\u2019s election, a federal court ruled Monday while turning aside a Republican request to block the new &#8230; <a title=\"Utah House voting map that helps Democrats can be used, federal court rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/utah-house-voting-map-that-helps-democrats-can-be-used-federal-court-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Utah House voting map that helps Democrats can be used, federal court rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}