{"id":68614,"date":"2026-03-10T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/theyre-trying-to-change-the-rules-republicans-ramp-up-fight-to-stop-new-maps-in-utah\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:10","slug":"theyre-trying-to-change-the-rules-republicans-ramp-up-fight-to-stop-new-maps-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/theyre-trying-to-change-the-rules-republicans-ramp-up-fight-to-stop-new-maps-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re trying to change the rules\u2019: Republicans ramp up fight to stop new maps in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes it harder to remove names from GOP remapping petition for people who say they were misled into signing it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/10\/donald-trump-iran-georgia-immigration-mississippi-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/utah\">Utah<\/a>\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state\u2019s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long favored the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest move, lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/51458587\/legislature-makes-late-night-election-bill-change-targeting-signature-removals\">passed a new rule over the weekend<\/a> that blocks many voters from withdrawing their signatures from a petition that sought to repeal Proposition 4 ahead of a Monday deadline, undermining efforts by grassroots groups to preserve the reform. That could affect the result of the petition after some voters said they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/26\/some-voters-say-they-were-tricked\/\">misled by Republicans<\/a> who asked them to sign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/utah-republicans-congressional-redistricting-maps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes it harder to remove names from GOP remapping petition for people who say they were misled into signing it US politics live \u2013 latest updates Utah\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state\u2019s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long favored the GOP. &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018They\u2019re trying to change the rules\u2019: Republicans ramp up fight to stop new maps in Utah\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/theyre-trying-to-change-the-rules-republicans-ramp-up-fight-to-stop-new-maps-in-utah\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018They\u2019re trying to change the rules\u2019: Republicans ramp up fight to stop new maps in Utah\">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-68614","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\/68614","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=68614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}