Michael Dresser, for The Baltimore Sun, Reports that “Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Thursday that he is appealing a federal ruling that threw out the state’s congressional map for the 6th District after determining that Democratic officials unconstitutionally drew the boundary to diminish Republican influence.”

Jess Bravin, for The Wall Street Journal, Reports “[m]ost gerrymandering lawsuits have invoked the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee, contending that lawmakers violated their duty to treat all voters equally,” but “[t]he Maryland case, in contrast, is based on First Amendment arguments that the state violated the free-speech and free-association rights of individual voters,” which “may make a difference with a right-leaning Supreme Court.”

Ann Marimow and Erin Cox, for The Washington Post, Reports that “[a]dvocates for redistricting reform in Maryland see Frosh’s appeal as a chance for the Supreme Court to spell out clear rules that would apply to every state in the country.”

Kenneth Jost, at Jost on Justice, explains why Federal Court Intervention is necessary to Curb Political Gerrymanders.










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