Does anyone know how the lawsuit is going to overturn the maps? I heard Republicans had a good shot of getting them thrown out.
On what basis?
Blatant racial gerrymandering so Democrats could pick up Bartlett's district. Census numbers entitled another minority majority district in the state.
Maryland's congressional map absolutely should be thrown out, but not because of any racial gerrymandering bull crap.
It should be tossed because it is so egregiously gerrymandered. Worst map of the whole cycle
Umm, are you forgetting NC-04 and NC-12? As far as I can tell, MD doesn't use any touch-point contiguity. Several of the NC districts do. NC and OH balance out MD and IL in terms of ugliness (in IL, you could even argue from the Obama numbers that a fair map should have 11-12 Democrats). Both parties do it when they can.
Democrats created snake-like NC 12
MD doesn't use "touch point contiguity," it uses "no point contiguity." Are you f---ing blind?
Districts 2 and 3. Hello?
The sad thing is the Dems could have created an quite clean 7-1 map were it not for Ruppersburger and Sarbanes insisting on keeping their inconvenient residences. Basically, eliminate the snaky arm into Towson for Sarbanes and give him a compact HoCo-Annapolis district instead.
