Republican Lawmakers' Challenges to New Congressional Maps Survive Motions to Dismiss

The majority of claims in a pair of lawsuits challenging Maryland’s congressional redistricting plan will be allowed to move forward, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Senior Judge Lynne A. Battaglia, who is hearing the case in Anne Arundel Circuit Court, considered motions to dismiss claims in the two cases last week and on Wednesday.

In an order late Wednesday, she dismissed one claim that the congressional district map, passed by the General Assembly in December, violates a constitutional requirement that lawmakers “pass laws necessary for the preservation of the purity of elections.”

Plaintiffs in that lawsuit, brought by Republican voters in all eight of Maryland’s congressional districts, include two Republican state delegates: Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-Baltimore and Harford counties) and Del. Christopher T. Adams (R-Lower Shore).

Read more: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/02/23/republican-lawmakers-challenges-to-new-congressional-maps-survive-motions-to-dismiss/