Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington on Saturday night, while former President Donald J. Trump is in Salt Lake City for a fund-raiser.
The Utah Legislature on Friday asked the Utah Supreme Court for an emergency order putting constitutional Amendment D — which would guarantee the Legislature the right to repeal citizen ballot initiatives — reviving the proposal that a judge ruled Thursday was “void” due to deceptive ballot language.
A Utah judge promises to rule by Thursday on a proposed constitutional amendment that would empower the Republican-dominated state Legislature to override citizen initiatives.
In a ruling released Thursday, a Utah judge voided a state constitutional amendment that would have enabled lawmakers to repeal all voter-led initiatives. Why it matters: The amendment, if passed, would have allowed Utah's GOP-controlled legislature to ignore anti-gerrymandering reforms voters passed in 2018 and all future voter initiatives.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke to donors in Washington, D.C., her running mate Tim Walz held a rally in Wisconsin and GOP nominee Donald Trump was set to fundraise in Utah on Saturday.
The decision came on Thursday, in response to a lawsuit filed by League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government that alleged the ballot language of a constitutional amendment was “deceptive.” Utah Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Mike Schultz, who wrote the language, said the language was “straightforward.”
The author of Utah’s child transgender treatment ban and his Democratic opponent in the 3rd Congressional District race said they would both support a federally commissioned study of transgender treatments for minors like the one that recently led to major policy changes in the United Kingdom.
Gov. Spencer Cox declared this the “golden age of Utah” during a televised debate on Wednesday night. His general election opponents agreed.
A judge was expected to weigh in on a lawsuit asking her to block a controversial proposed constitutional amendment from appearing on the Nov. 5 ballot that would enshrine the Utah Legislature’s power to change or repeal any ballot initiative,