"Judge Battaglia's ruling confirms what we have all known for years — Maryland is ground zero for gerrymandering, our districts and political reality reek of it, and there is abundant proof that it is occurring," Mr. Mayer said. "Marylanders have been fighting for free and fair elections for decades and for the first time in our state's shameful history of gerrymandering, we are at the precipice of ending it."
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"If President Biden's Department of Justice can sue Texas over accusations of denying voting rights to minorities, then the people of Maryland deserve to have their case heard in court as well," Mr. Mayer said in a Dec. 8 statement. "The legislature may have temporarily achieved their partisan goal today, but we can assure them that the courts will have the final say on this matter."
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