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Lynne Battaglia

Maryland congressional mapmaking in 2022 was the most unusual in recent memory, and the effects of a successful court challenge to lawmakers’ original map…

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)…

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.”

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.

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…

Screenshot of Maryland's new congressional map

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…