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Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said that the General Assembly will convene Aug. 3-5 to consider legislation to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November.
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts.
Dan Cox, a far-right election denier who attended President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally and built his political brand around false claims about the 2020 election, won Maryland’s Republican primary for governor Tuesday.
A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Maryland’s statewide, unredacted voter registration list, dealing another blow to President Trump and the department’s sweeping campaign to obtain voter data from the states.
Maryland’s top Democrats are reportedly preparing for a possible special session next month to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November, a move that could give the state a new path to answer the nationwide GOP gerrymandering plot pushed by President Donald Trump.
In the weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority dismembered the Voting Rights Act through its landmark Louisiana v. Callais ruling, Republicans have raced to pass new gerrymandered congressional maps that eliminate Black political representation across the South.
The Trump administration struggled to explain exactly how it plans to use the sensitive voter data it is demanding from states across the country, with a government lawyer telling a federal judge in Maryland: “I’m not going to get into the details.”
The Justice Department civil rights chief has requested that Maryland election officials retain ballots, in response to the mischaracterization of an error as fraud.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said that this “represents a very welcome shift” that “understands the urgency of this moment.”
A spokesperson for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore blasted Trump Monday evening for spreading false claims about the state’s elections.
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