Maryland officials must draw up a new congressional district map that isn't tainted by partisan gerrymandering, a three-judge panel has ruled. (CN) - Maryland officials must draw up a new ...
Congressional and legislative district maps were ... constituted “extreme partisan gerrymandering.” The ruling was based on a novel application of the Maryland Constitution — which mandates ...
Seven members of Maryland's congressional delegation received perfect scores from Common Cause, the national political reform ...
The Supreme Court examined two cases of partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina and Maryland, where voters and other plaintiffs sued the states for district maps they claimed were unconstitutional.
Maryland’s 6th Congressional District has been a Democratic ... John Sarbanes (D) in the state’s 3rd District.
A s readers of this journal know so well, few eras have been as pivotal for American democracy as the present. After years of ...
Phillips, 54, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and elected to represent the state's 3rd Congressional District in 2018 ... The former Maryland governor announced on March 5, 2023, that he would ...
"In gerrymandered states, for between a third and half of voters the closest congressional district office is in the wrong district." He said for some people living in western edge of the 6th ...
Whitford, a case challenging Wisconsin’s legislative district ... redistricters in Maryland and Illinois, has produced the nation’s most grotesquely shaped congressional districts.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opted against running for a third term ... out the existing congressional map. With the incumbent out, the 6th district is a prime Democratic ...
Voters in a Pennsylvania House district ... that the state's congressional boundaries are unconstitutional, landing another blow to the controversial practice of partisan gerrymandering.
The algorithm initially didn’t work well because measuring gerrymandering in Utah is very different than measuring gerrymandering in other states. Having just four congressional districts means ...