Maryland courtroom blocks effort by Dem marketing campaign committee to defend gerrymandered congressional map

The Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee’s (DCCC) try and defend Maryland’s gerrymandered congressional map was blocked final week by a state courtroom, a blow to the group that was being represented by Democrat legal professional Marc Elias.

HOYER SAYS DEMS SHOULD GERRYMANDER TO PREVENT ‘UNFAIR COMPETITION,’ SINCE REPUBLICANS DO IT TOO

The Anne Arundel County Circuit Court docket denied the DCCC movement to intervene as a defendant within the case on Friday. If that movement was granted, it could have allowed the group to successfully take over the protection of the state’s congressional map from the Maryland State Board of Elections in a lawsuit introduced by a number of GOP candidates and the group Honest Maps Maryland.

The DCCC sought to intervene within the case, it stated, as a result of the Maryland elections board doesn’t “share Proposed Intervenor’s curiosity in guaranteeing its members of Congress have a chance to compete in and win congressional elections in correctly constituted districts.”

OBAMA, HOLDER SLAM GOP STATES FOR GERRYMANDERING, BUT SILENT AS DEMOCRATS DO THE SAME THING

The Maryland map handed by the Democrat-supermajority Maryland legislature over the veto of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan threatens to gerrymander Maryland’s final Republican congressman out of his seat. It was given an “F” by the Princeton Gerrymandering Challenge, the identical grade as Republican gerrymanders in states like Texas, Ohio and North Carolina. 

“Rejecting a partisan political group’s brazen try and defend partisan maps drawn by politicians is the final word no-brainer,” stated Doug Mayer, a spokesman for Honest Maps Maryland, which is related to Hogan. “The very last thing Marylanders wished was political operatives from Washington, D.C., interfering with their state elections.”

Additionally final week, a separate state courtroom listening to a problem to Maryland’s legislative map pushed again the submitting deadline for the state’s primaries, a transfer Republicans say signifies courts could also be open to tossing the maps.