Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates this year using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, according to a ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Read More »June 17, 2019 Comments Off on High court lets Virginia voting go ahead under redrawn map
Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates this year using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, according to a ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Read More »March 26, 2019 Comments Off on Justices weigh constitutionality of Maryland district
WASHINGTON – Based on questions and comments from justices Tuesday, Maryland’s currently configured westernmost congressional district appears to stand no chance of survival if the Supreme Court holds unconstitutional the intentional redrawing of a district to favor one political party, ...
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Read More »March 19, 2019 Comments Off on Frosh files final bid to save district as high court date nears
A panel of federal judges failed to draw a “limited and precise” line between permissible and unconstitutionally excessive partisan gerrymandering before striking down the state’s westernmost congressional district as too friendly to Democrats, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh stated ...
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Read More »March 11, 2019 Comments Off on Hogan, Schwarzenegger submit brief urging redrawn Md. district
Gov. Larry Hogan has joined fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to erase and order the redrawing of Maryland’s westernmost congressional district, saying it was invalidly created by Maryland’s Democratic leadership to freeze out GOP voters ...
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Read More »March 8, 2019 Comments Off on ACLU of Maryland calls congressional district unconstitutionally drawn
The ACLU of Maryland pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to strike down the state’s westernmost congressional district as unconstitutionally drawn by Maryland’s Democratic leadership to freeze out Republican voters and ensure the election of a Democrat as U.S. ...
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Read More »March 5, 2019 Comments Off on As high court date nears, Md. GOP voters make last gerrymander challenge
In their final attack on partisan gerrymandering before the U.S. Supreme Court hears the case, Maryland Republicans told the justices Monday that the state’s Democratic leadership violated their constitutional right to political association by redrawing the state’s western-most congressional district ...
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Read More »February 11, 2019 Comments Off on Constitution bars ‘excessive’ partisanship, Frosh tells justices
A three-judge panel disregarded legitimate political considerations when it struck down a congressional district in western Maryland because it was drawn with such a partisan bias by the state’s Democratic leadership as to violate the Republicans’ constitutional right to political ...
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Read More »January 4, 2019 Comments Off on Hogan’s redistricting panel co-chair says state should be national model
ANNAPOLIS – The Democratic co-chair of the Republican governor’s commission to redraw a western Maryland congressional district found to be unconstitutionally partisan toward Democrats urged the panel’s members Friday to fairly, independently and transparently create a model district against partisan ...
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Read More »January 4, 2019 Comments Off on Supreme Court will review constitutionality of Md. congressional district
Setting the stage for a potential landmark ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court decision striking down a congressional district in western Maryland as having been drawn with such a partisan bias by the state’s ...
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Read More »December 20, 2018 Comments Off on Trone urges Supreme Court to uphold Md. congressional district
The Democrat who next month will begin representing a Maryland congressional district at the heart of a constitutional challenge to partisan gerrymandering has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to validate the controversial district as having been reasonably redrawn. In papers ...
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