Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s farewell announcement from public life this week quiets the voice of perhaps the most eloquent opponent of judicial elections to ever speak out against the practice in Maryland. Appearing in Annapolis eight years ...

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Montgomery County lawyer Jonathan S. Shurberg, whose community activism endeared him to the downtrodden and whose election-law expertise was sought by legislators and counties, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 54. “His political knowledge was encyclopedic,” said U.S. ...

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Frosh says he had no plans to sue Trump under the Emoluments Clause when the General Assembly authorized the attorney general to take the president to court.

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Barring an upset of historic proportions, state Sen. Jamin B. “Jamie” Raskin will be heading to Capitol Hill rather than Annapolis in January.

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A legislative proposal to ban guns from the campuses of Maryland’s public higher education institutions, which passed the House but languished in a Senate committee for weeks because it didn’t have enough votes, was folded into a separate proposal in ...

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A curious thing happened on the way to a veto override Friday morning.

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Three controversial appointments to the Baltimore City Liquor Board could be voted down when the Senate Executive Nominations Committee meets later today.

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Democratic lawmakers praised the bipartisan tone of Gov. Larry Hogan’s second State of the State speech Wednesday as a vast improvement from his maiden address last year.

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Sen. Jamie Raskin will introduce legislation this week to limit the ability of corporations to contribute to political campaigns despite a Supreme Court ruling that said such restrictions violate the First Amendment right to free speech.

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Six state lawmakers are campaigning this year to leave the State House in favor of a seat in the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh says he will file campaign documents within a week with hope to make the move to Congress as well.

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