Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned effective immediately on May 8, 2026, after Republican state leaders launched an independent investigation into her alleged personal relationship with redistricting attorney David Reymann — despite the state's Judicial Conduct Commission having already dismissed the complaint as "speculative, overstated, and misleading." The resignation, which came amid a broader effort by the GOP-controlled legislature to expand and reshape the court after a string of redistricting defeats, has raised alarm among judicial independence advocates who say the episode amounts to political retaliation against a jurist who ruled against the legislature's preferred congressional maps.