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For about three and a half years, there's been this case working its way through Utah's courts.

In 2022, the League of Women Voters and Mormon Women for Ethical Government sued the legislature for not following the rules when redrawing Utah's congressional districts.

Now, since statehood, redrawing the districts has been the legislature's responsibility.

It's a duty assigned to them by the state constitution.

But then came Proposition 4 in 2018.

This is a ballot initiative that voters narrowly approved to remove partisanship and gerrymandering from the process and to create this independent commission to redraw the maps.

The problem, according to these groups, is that lawmakers ignored the commission's maps and approved their own.

Well, last week we got a ruling.

Third District Judge Diana Gibson throughout the legislature's map and ordered them to draw a new one that follows the principles of Prop 4.

This week, we spoke with Elizabeth Rasmussen. She's the executive director of Better Boundaries.

It's the group behind the push for independent redistricting. And when all of this began, Rasmussen says she was a college student who found herself drawn into the fight for fair maps.

The process for getting on the ballot in and of itself is very, very challenging in Utah. The signature thresholds are very high.

At the time, I was just an undergrad student in Utah.

And I did my little part to submit some signatures.

And then in 2018, we had a very incredible win for three ballot initiatives, actually.

Expansion of Medicaid, medical marijuana, and Proposition 4.

It empowered voters.

It allowed voters to have a say.

But in 2021, the legislature, they passed a bill,

which eliminated the core of what Proposition 4 is and passed their own gerrymandered map. And you could

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