Maryland Governor Wes Moore released a video statement on Saturday, announcing that a ballot initiative to erase the state’s single Republican district was approved by the Maryland Supreme Court and vowing to use the ruling to disenfranchise state Republicans.
Per Politico:
The Maryland Supreme Court on Thursday gave Democrats a victory in the state’s protracted redistricting battle, allowing the Legislature’s proposed amendment on redistricting that party leaders want to clear the way for a 2028 gerrymander to appear before voters in November.
If approved by voters on Election Day, the measure known as Question 3 will prevent future Democratic redraws from being subjected to strict compactness and geographic standards that undid their last attempt at an 8-0 map in 2022.
Following the ruling, Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore applauded the ruling, claiming it means “that the power of our democracy belongs in the hands of the people.”
He further decried Trump and MAGA for “working to rig the system, weaken voting rights, and make the pain that they are inflicting on Americans permanent,” while ironically rigging the system to prevent a third of Marylanders from having representation in Congress.
The Democrats already tried but failed to erase the Republican district in 2022, but now that Republicans want to redistrict in red states, it’s all of a sudden an attack on voting rights, according to the left.
“It’s official: On November 3rd, Question 3 will be on the ballot,” he wrote on X.
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Moore: The Maryland Supreme Court decided that the power of our democracy belongs in the hands of the people. For over a year, I have called out Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans for working to rig the system, weaken voting rights, and make the pain that they are inflicting on Americans permanent.
I’ve also been very clear that Maryland will not be caught flat-footed while they roll back decades of progress. Donald Trump does not get to dictate our democracy, nor do party bosses. I will always fight for our people, and that includes ensuring our freedoms are determined by Marylanders and nobody else.
Rep. Andy Harris, the only Republican Congressman from Maryland, responded to the push to disenfranchise Republicans in the state and remove their one representative. “What we’re going to do is we have to educate people. No matter what that ballot says, what this does, this allows extreme partisan gerrymandering, and that’s what you’re voting on,” he said of the radical push.
“Democracy is the fact that people in each congressional district elect who they think is going to represent them best. And in seven of the eight districts, they elect a Democrat. In one lone district, they elect a Republican. But even that one Republican is too much for the Democrat supermajority.”
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