Maryland might have to do a lot more than just redraw a congressional district if Republican voters ultimately prevail in their lawsuit.

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A three-judge panel on Friday stayed, pending U.S. Supreme Court resolution, its decision that a western Maryland congressional district was so severely drawn to ensure a Democrat’s election as to violate the GOP voters’ constitutional right to political association. The ...

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh will seek Supreme Court review of a three-judge panel’s decision striking down as unconstitutionally gerrymandered a western Maryland congressional district that Republican voters say was so severely tilted to ensure a Democrat’s election as ...

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A panel of three federal judges is hedging its order last week that Maryland redraw by March 7 the state’s 6th Congressional District, which the jurists said last week was so severely tilted to ensure a Democrat’s election that it ...

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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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U.S. district court panel will hear arguments Oct. 4 from GOP voters and Maryland Board of Elections in their dispute over Democratic partisan gerrymandering.

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A group of Republican voters and the Maryland Board of Elections have brought differing interpretations of a recent Supreme Court decision to their ongoing legal dispute regarding whether partisan gerrymandering in a congressional district was so severe it violated the minority party’s constitutional right to political association.

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An unsuccessful attempt to unfetter the state's craft brewing industry will return to Annapolis in 2019 "with more bells and whistles,” if Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot has his way.

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ANNAPOLIS – Republican Gov. Larry Hogan voiced dismay Monday that the Democratic-led General Assembly let die his annual proposal for an independent commission to redraw Maryland’s gerrymandered congressional districts, saying he retains hope the Supreme Court will rule partisan gerrymandering ...

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