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Opinion: What do Utah’s congressional representatives stand for?

Published: Sept 16, 2025

By Teneille Brown, Mackenzie Heinrichs, Rebekah Cummings, Frank Brannan

Teneille Brown is the James I Farr Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Mackenzie Heinrichs is the director of the Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic at S.J. Quinney; Rebekah Cummings is the chair of the Utah Education Caucus and was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in 2024; Frank Brannan is the director of Utah Alliance Coalition. All opinions in this article are the writers' own and do not represent the views of their employers.

“At what point will you part ways with Trump and stop supporting his policies?”

The Utah delegation has rubber-stamped nearly all of Trump’s appointees and bills. We believe they have excused his abuses of power. This complicity has enabled Trump to rob from the poor to give to the rich, to ignore court orders, to stop funding critical federal research, to send troops into cities as a dictatorial stunt, to suggest taking over local elections and to detain people without due process.

If you had asked any one of our representatives a couple of years ago, under a different administration, if they would have supported any of these authoritarian moves, the answer would have been a resounding “no.” And yet, here we are.

Alexander Hamilton said, “Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.” That is why it’s important for our representatives to answer these critical questions: What do you stand for? Will you support anything President Trump does going forward, or do you have a principled limit as to how far you will let him go in disrespecting due process? Utahns of all political persuasions who respect democracy and the rule of law deserve an answer.