Good Friday morning from Salt Lake City. Have a great weekend.
Here’s what is driving the day:
- LaVarr Webb asks: If Jon Huntsman runs for governor, is it game over? What are the ramifications of a Huntsman candidacy?
- Gov. Herbert vetoed bill giving convention delegates job of advancing candidates to the ballot to fill congressional vacancies. Now talks are underway about a compromise (Deseret News).
- With support of Utah’s two senators, Trump nominee David Bernhardt will become secretary of the Interior (Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune).
- Utah gets first look at self-driving shuttle (Salt Lake Tribune).
- Julian Assange is arrested and faces charge in 2010 computer hack (The Hill) (New York Times).
- Federalist Society speaker praises Orrin Hatch and says religious intolerance is ‘insidious’ and ‘fashionable” (Salt Lake Tribune).
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