Maryland's governor says a "nonpartisan" emergency commission will be created to draw new boundaries for a congressional district.

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With an election looming, courts earlier this year declared congressional districts in two states to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. One map was redrawn. The other was not.

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A panel of three federal judges appears poised to side with Republican voters who claim partisan gerrymandering of their western Maryland congressional district was so severe it violated their constitutional right to political association.

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WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court kept Texas’ voting maps largely intact Monday, dealing an election-year blow to Democrats by reversing earlier findings that intentional racial discrimination continues to stain several statehouse and congressional districts. The 5-4 decision comes nine ...

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A much-watched challenge to Maryland’s 6th Congressional District was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, which said plaintiffs waited too long to mount a challenge and ask for a preliminary injunction. The case is one of two involving redistricting on ...

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OCEAN CITY — Two cases out of Maryland are among the most anticipated opinions yet to come from the Supreme Court’s fall session. Attorneys gave a rundown of the “Supreme Court Term in Review” Friday at the Maryland State Bar ...

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In high school, we were taught there were three separate but equal branches of government. But in practice, separation of powers, this year’s theme for the American Bar Association’s Law Day (celebrated each year May 1), has been more of an ephemeral goal than reality.

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In their last filing before the Supreme Court hears their appeal, Republican voters told the justices Tuesday that federal judges can determine if Maryland’s Democratic-led General Assembly unconstitutionally redrew a congressional district to replace a GOP House member with a ...

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Republicans challenging the constitutionality of the pro-Democratic redrawing of a Maryland congressional district have told the U.S. Supreme Court their claim differs significantly from a case pending before the justices, which asks if Wisconsin’s GOP lawmakers drew legislative districts so ...

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A three-judge U.S. District Court panel appears poised to stay a Republican congressional redistricting challenge in Maryland pending the U.S. Supreme Court’s resolution of whether GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin drew legislative districts so contrary to the state’s political breakdown that ...

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