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Court Rules Maryland Redistricting Amendment Must Go on Ballot

Court Rules Maryland Redistricting Amendment Must Go on Ballot

Court Rules Maryland Redistricting Amendment Must Go on Ballot
Above: Voting in Maryland. Image credit: Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service/Getty Images

The Spin


Marylanders deserve the final say on how their maps get drawn, and the state Supreme Court just made sure that happens. Republican-led states spent the past year ramming through gerrymanders at President Trump's request and gutting the Voting Rights Act, so unilateral disarmament makes no sense here. Question 3 belongs on the November ballot, where voters — not partisan lawsuits — settle the question.

Democrats blew past legal deadlines and skipped required procedures, then got a court to rewrite their own ballot language for them — that's judges acting as the legislature. TheDespite wholenegative pointpolling, isDemocrats erasingare determined to erase the last Republican House seat and lockinglock in one-party rule that silences more than a million Marylanders. Polling shows voters reject extreme partisan gerrymandering, and this amendment can be beaten in November.


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