Maryland's Legislature has been sent back to the drawing board for its congressional map after a state court ruled Friday that the recently enacted map unfairly favored Democrats.
The victory for the GOP came from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County and will likely be appealed. But if it holds, the Legislature will have until March 30 to develop a new map more palatable to jurists.
Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, testified that the reconfigured map would make District 1, the sole GOP-held seat, more competitive for Democrats but maintained that Republicans would still likely emerge victorious there in 2022. “To call this a big deal would be the understatement of the century," Fair Maps Maryland proclaimed in a statement after Battaglia ruled in its favor. “Judge Battaglia’s ruling confirms what we have all known for years — Maryland is ground zero for gerrymandering, our districts and political reality reek of it, and there is abundant proof that it is occurring.
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