A Former Utah Supreme Court Justice Asked Dallin Oaks to Defend the Courts

A Former Utah Supreme Court Justice Asked Dallin Oaks to Defend the Courts

David Bennett, a former Utah Supreme Court justice, wrote to Dallin Oaks in the Salt Lake Tribune on May 14. Oaks is also a former Utah Supreme Court justice and the current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The ask: speak out for Utah's courts.

The context is Proposition 4, the anti-gerrymandering law Utah voters passed in 2018. The legislature repealed it in 2020 and drew its own map. Five years of litigation followed. In late 2025 the courts threw out the legislature's replacement map and installed one drawn by plaintiffs including the League of Women Voters and Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Republican-appointed justices upheld those rulings, and a campaign to remove two of them followed.

The same month, the church directed every U.S. ward to hold a fifth Sunday lesson on religious freedom and constitutional principles, set for May 31, with a worldwide fast for the rule of law on July 5.

Bennett’s argument is that Oaks has the standing, the title, the legal background, and now the reach into every U.S. chapel to say that judges shouldn't lose their seats for ruling correctly.

Bennett’s letter is linked below.

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