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Bennett Leckrone was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. He is a December 2019 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Leckrone has interned at The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Columbus Dispatch, PennLive.com, The Dayton Daily News and The Troy Daily News.
The report from Special Magistrate Alan M. Wilner will serve as a recommendation to the Court of Appeals, which has original jurisdiction over challenges to state legislative maps.
Ten days after a judge tossed out Maryland’s congressional plan for “extreme partisan gerrymandering,” legislative leaders dropped their appeal and Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan…
A judge deferred ruling on a redrawn congressional district map from the Maryland General Assembly on Friday because Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R)…
Tenants and advocates are calling on lawmakers to do more to protect tenants in the final days of the 2022 General Assembly session —…
The Maryland House of Delegates gave final approval to a redrawn congressional map Wednesday afternoon, capping off the new plan’s speedy run through the…
The new congressional map advancing through the General Assembly this week, after a judge ordered the boundaries to be redrawn, includes the biggest shakeups…
Update, 7 p.m.: The House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee voted along party lines Tuesday evening to send the new map to the full…
The scramble to redraw a map came after a judge last said the General Assembly’s original proposal was an “extreme partisan gerrymander.”
Legendary former U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D), the first woman to be elected statewide in Maryland, offered her first endorsement of the 2022…
A judge blocked Maryland’s new congressional map Friday, finding that the plan violates the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights — and unfairly favors Democrats. She ordered lawmakers to come up with a new plan by nextWednesday.