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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.
Roughly 30% of Baltimore County residents are Black, according to U.S. Census data, and nearly half are people of color, reflecting growing diversity in the county.
An attorney whose clients are challenging the state’s legislative districts asserted that Marylanders aren’t given an equal vote since they vote for one, two or three delegates depending on the district they live in.
The former Court of Appeals judge who is presiding over the lawsuits wondered whether Maryland’s unusual geography could have an impact on the district boundaries.
U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby said at a Monday hearing that she would try to rule this week as to whether a…
Early voting will run from July 7 to July 14, including on Saturday and Sunday.
Attorneys for challengers to Maryland’s new congressional districts asked a judge to find the new map unconstitutional on the final day of a trial…
Maryland’s new congressional map will likely produce the same 7-1 partisan breakdown as the previous map, an expert for the state said during a…
The list includes more than a dozen lawmakers who serve with his principal Democratic primary foe in the House of Delegates.
Legal challenges to Maryland’s congressional district map will continue after a judge in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court denied the state’s claim that the…
The change is a reflection of the uncertainty over political boundaries in dozens of elections across the state.