Maryland’s top court approved the General Assembly’s redrawn legislative districts last spring by just a single vote.
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Read More »September 1, 2022 Comments Off on Just-released opinion reveals Md. high court approved redistricting by single vote
Maryland’s top court approved the General Assembly’s redrawn legislative districts last spring by just a single vote.
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Read More »April 13, 2022 Comments Off on Md. high court upholds state’s legislative redistricting plan
The state's highest court has rejected three challenges to the General Assembly's map redrawing its legislative districts.
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Read More »April 8, 2022 Comments Off on GOP lawmakers challenge magistrate’s report on Md. legislative reapportionment
ANNAPOLIS — Three Republican lawmakers have filed exceptions to a special magistrate’s report recommending that challenges to Maryland’s state legislative redistricting plan be dismissed. The filing, which was expected, is the first to be made before the Friday deadline. Attorneys ...
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Read More »February 10, 2022 Comments Off on Maryland Republicans sue over legislative redistricting plan
Three Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state redistricting plan passed earlier this year.
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Read More »March 3, 2017 Comments Off on Hogan renews push for legislative redistricting reform
ANNAPOLIS — Seeking to rally support for the creation of an independent, non-partisan committee to handle redistricting, Gov. Larry Hogan Friday called the state’s current partisan redistricting process “disgraceful” and lambasted the legislature for not acting to implement reforms. Hogan has made passage ...
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Read More »November 28, 2016 Comments Off on Wisconsin ruling invigorates GOP challenge to Democratic Md. district
A federal court’s striking down of Wisconsin’s legislative redistricting as unconstitutionally Republican-centric has invigorated a pending GOP-backed challenge to a Maryland congressional district as unconstitutionally favorable to Democrats, an attorney for the challengers said Monday.
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Read More »October 17, 2013 Comments Off on Poll: Make Redistricting Independent of Elected Officials
Statewide, 73 percent of those surveyed earlier this month said they prefer redistricting to be done by an independent commission rather than by elected officials, according to a poll requested by the Greater Baltimore Committee.
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Read More »November 8, 2012 Comments Off on Eye Opener: ‘Deep blue’ Maryland makes history
Some government headlines in Maryland on Thursday.
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Read More »June 1, 2012 Comments Off on Stewart gets 2 years for failing to pay taxes
GREENBELT — A former member of an advisory committee on legislative redistricting in Maryland who pleaded guilty to failing to pay millions in employment taxes has been sentenced to spend two years in prison. Richard Stewart pleaded guilty in December ...
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Read More »January 16, 2012 Comments Off on Top court’s last decision shows where to draw the line on redistricting
If the past is indeed prologue, Maryland’s top court will soon be asked to strike down the state’s newest legislative-district map — and the Maryland Court of Appeals will be constitutionally bound to consider the challenge. All it takes to ...
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