The state's highest court rejected arguments made by Republicans that the map was unfair and gerrymandered.
ends a legal challenge that upended the state election calendar and settles uncertainty over when voters will make selections for local, state and congressional races. The order notes that the filing deadline for candidates wishing to appear on July’s primary ballotand that the primary election, which originally was scheduled for June 28, will be held July 19.
The court agreed with a recommendation to deny the challenges to the map made earlier this month by retired judge Alan M. Wilner, who served as a special magistrate and gathered evidence on behalf of the court. Plaintiffs had argued that the map violated the state constitution because, they said, several districts were not compact and that multimember districts were not legal.The ruling, signed by Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty, comes less than two weeks after Gov.
A Maryland judge had found that the original congressional map approved by the Democratic-controlled legislature was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The state attorney general filed an appeal, but ultimately dropped it after the
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