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Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigns amid Utah Legislature’s investigation
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | May 8, 2026 | Robert Gehrke

Posted on 05/08/2026 5:49:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Under intense pressure from Republican leaders, including Gov. Spencer Cox, Justice Diana Hagen resigned from the Utah Supreme Court on Friday.

Cox, along with House Speaker Mike Schultz and Senate President J. Stuart Adams announced an investigation last month into allegations that Hagen had an improper relationship with an attorney with a case before the high court — accusations that the Judicial Conduct Commission dismissed as “misleading.”

Under the cloud of the investigation — and the Utah Republican Party actively campaigning for Utahns to vote her off the bench in November’s retention election — Hagen submitted her resignation, “effective immediately,” to Cox, the governor said in a news release Friday.

In her resignation letter, Hagen wrote that she recognizes public service requires sacrifice and officials are held to a higher standard and “greater degree of public scrutiny and diminished privacy.”

“But my family and friends did not choose public life,” she wrote. “They do not deserve to have intensely personal details surrounding the painful dissolution of my thirty-year marriage subjected to public scrutiny.”

“I would love nothing more than to continue serving the people of Utah as a Supreme Court Justice,” she wrote, “but I cannot do so without sacrificing the privacy and well-being of those I care about and the effective functioning and independence of Utah’s judiciary.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: isitthemyogi; judgewatch; themagain; utah

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1 posted on 05/08/2026 5:49:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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BREAKING UPDATE: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has RESIGNED amid an investigation for having an alleged romantic relationship with the lawyer who argued the Democrats’ Utah redistricting case, which she ruled in FAVOR of. pic.twitter.com/C6QmndPpom— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 8, 2026


2 posted on 05/08/2026 5:54:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well... bye.


3 posted on 05/08/2026 6:00:06 PM PDT by Ken H (Freeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Trump War Room is real.

They are going to be taking pelts from here on out.


4 posted on 05/08/2026 6:02:42 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

Beaver pelts???


5 posted on 05/08/2026 6:09:28 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: wetgundog

What you did there, I saw it.


6 posted on 05/08/2026 6:12:47 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bitch got sucked in. Happens to men too.


7 posted on 05/08/2026 6:16:38 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (... )
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To: MinorityRepublican

A bit long in the tooth and large to be fooling around?


8 posted on 05/08/2026 6:34:02 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: MinorityRepublican

All her work to get to the top of her profession and it’s gone for some bed fun. Amazing.


9 posted on 05/08/2026 6:36:15 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: MinorityRepublican

The story is missing a key detail. Was the attorney male or female.


10 posted on 05/08/2026 6:52:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Midwesterner53

“...All her work to get to the top of her profession and it’s gone for some bed fun. Amazing...”

Well, when one screws the People over and over without consequence, she probably figured: what’s one or two low-life lawyers gonna bring?
She definitely FAFO’ed......


11 posted on 05/08/2026 6:59:03 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: PAR35

Noticed the same thing!


12 posted on 05/09/2026 2:13:58 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe!)
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To: Midwesterner53; lgjhn23

“All her work to get to the top of her profession and it’s gone for some bed fun. Amazing.”

Well, yeah except for her generous pension and a cushy teaching job.


13 posted on 05/09/2026 5:36:49 AM PDT by utax
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To: doorgunner69

The pink blazer makes her look larger than she is. Her face and chin line is not what would be associated with a heavy woman.


14 posted on 05/09/2026 3:07:41 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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15 posted on 05/09/2026 3:17:54 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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