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Andy Harris (politician) Andrew Peter Harris (born January 25, 1957) is an American politician and physician [ 1 ] serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore, as well as several eastern exurbs of Baltimore. He is the only Republican member of Maryland's ...
Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023), [note 1] is a United States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The appellees and respondants argued that Alabama's congressional districts discriminated against African-American voters. The Court ruled 5–4 that Alabama’s districts likely violated the ...
Maryland's congressional districts since 2023. Maryland is divided into eight congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2020 census, the number of Maryland 's seats remained unchanged, giving evidence of stable population growth relative to the United States at large. [ 1][ 2]
Saying they wanted to take partisanship out of redistricting, Democrats there in 2014 backed a ballot measure to put the process in the hands of a bipartisan commission. But the state legislature ...
Justin Ready. Justin D. Ready ( / ˈriːdiː / REE-dee; born April 15, 1982) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate since 2015, representing District 5 in Carroll County. He previously represented the district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2015.
28 U.S.C. § 2284. Shapiro v. McManus, 577 U.S. ___ (2015), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified when United States District Court judges must refer cases to three-judge panels. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court ruled that federal district courts are required to refer cases to a ...
The state Redistricting Commission was given an opportunity to revise and adopt a new map, but declined, much to the chagrin of Republicans who voiced support for calling the commission back to ...
The citizens redistricting commission approved the new district map for the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. ... the commissioners held more than a dozen public hearings, reviewing 3,800 written ...