# Take 2 Podcast: Everything you need to know as Democrats, Republicans use every legal avenue in Utah's redistricting fight Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/take-2-577317/take-2-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-as-democrats-republicans-use-every-legal-avenue-in-utah-s-redistricting-fight Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/take-2-577317/take-2-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-as-democrats-republicans-use-every-legal-avenue-in-utah-s-redistricting-fight.md Podcast: [Take 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/take-2-577317) Published: 2026-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SINCL3897690132.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SINCL3897690132.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/take-2-577317/episodes/take-2-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-as-democrats-republicans-use-every-legal-avenue-in-utah-s-redistricting-fight Duration seconds: 2263 ## Resource Host: Heidi Hatch Guests: Maura Carabello, Exoro Group Rob Axson, Utah GOP Chair NEW FEDERAL REDISTRICTING LAWSUIT A new federal lawsuit has been filed by Congressmen Burgess Owens and Celeste Maloy, along with other elected officials, challenging Utah’s redistricting process. “Today we took action. I, along with elected officials throughout our state, filed a federal lawsuit to defend the constitutional process by which Utah chooses its representatives. We can’t just sit idly by as our representative government is weakened. This lawsuit exists to restore proper constitutional balance.” — Rep. Celeste Maloy More information on the case: Powers-Gardner v. Henderson Related developments with the lawsuit filed with the Utah Supreme Court: Utah Legislature asks the Utah Supreme Court to stay the redistricting ruling Utah County Clerk requests to join the case PROP 4 REPEAL: FINAL DAYS 9 days remain in the Proposition 4 repeal signature-gathering effort, which officially ends Sunday, February 15. Signatures currently verified and submitted to the Lieutenant Governor’s Office: 52% Is a large final submission still coming? Utah GOP Chair Rob Axson offers insight Growing controversy surrounding the effort, including accusations of assaults on signature gatherers and complaints from voters who say they did not understand what they were signing SIGNATURE GATHERING CONTROVERSY Better Boundaries announces a targeted signature removal campaign following reports of deceptive signature-gathering practices related to the repeal of Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law. Better Boundaries says voters were misled by signature gatherers- our Take 2 guests argue this isn’t really an argument Utah County Attorney confirms a criminal investigation into potential signature-gathering fraud Utah Count… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/take-2-577317/episodes/take-2-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-as-democrats-republicans-use-every-legal-avenue-in-utah-s-redistricting-fight/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/take-2-577317/take-2-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-as-democrats-republicans-use-every-legal-avenue-in-utah-s-redistricting-fight.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.