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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A Maryland judge ruled Friday that the state's new congressional map is unconstitutional, the first Democratic-drawn map to be struck down by a court this redistricting cycle in what the judge called a "product of extreme partisan gerrymandering."

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press

A Maryland judge ruled Friday that the state’s new congressional map is unconstitutional, the first Democratic-drawn map to be struck down by a court this redistricting cycle in what the judge called a “product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.”

A Maryland judge Friday threw out the Democrat-controlled state legislature's congressional district map on account of "extreme partisan gerrymandering" and ordered it to draw a new one by March 30.  

Legislature was accused of gerrymandering after substituting its own new district maps for ones drafted by outside commission

Maryland judge rules new congressional map unconstitutional | 2022-03-26 05:28:09

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland judge ruled Friday that the state’s new...

Judge Lynne Battaglia of Anne Arundel County said the map's district lines favored Democrats over Republicans

A Maryland judge on Friday rejected a map of the state's congressional districts approved by the Democratic-majority General Assembly and told state lawmakers to “develop a new congressional plan that is constitutional.”