2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Maryland

[Antonio the Sixth]

The commission map is remarkably nice and fair. In an ideal world, it should be approved. Unfortunately, conceding two seats to the GOP is hard to swallow given what they are doing in other states.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The commission map is remarkably nice and fair. In an ideal world, it should be approved. Unfortunately, conceding two seats to the GOP is hard to swallow given what they are doing in other states.

There is some VRA issues with this map. I’m going pretty sure I read MD-04 is a African American pack and MD-06 dilutes the African American vote by what it grabs outside of Baltimore City.

tbf, in an ideal world we wouldn't need the VRA either, but that's another can of worms

[Antonio the Sixth]

Another lawsuit. This one, albeit from a Pub perspective, channels the NC one that even though SCOTUS has ruled there is no gas against gerrymandering in the US Constitution tank, the identical or close to identical language in the state constitution does. The only problem with the analogy is that both state high courts are Dem friendly, and appear to be quite hackish, so a suit against a Dem map before a hackish Dem court is likely DOA, just like the last round. Which is why it is bad practice for states to copy cat  the US Constitution with broad sweeping undefined language about rights. What that does is just give their courts power, and given the judges run on partisan lines (another bad practice), the courts become a third sector of the legislative branch which can nullify what the other two sectors do. And the stakes get higher as to who wins the judge election on a partisan basis. All that fluff should be removed immediately.

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2021/12/08/fair-maps-maryland-announces-lawsuit-against-just-approved-congressional-redistricting-plan/

I'd be perfectly happy if both maps were overturned.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Oh wow, an actually decent CoI map? Gotta say, hard to complain here, even though this might cost Dems a seat.