Attorneys for a group of Republican delegates pressed a judge Wednesday to reject a Maryland General Assembly-approved map of state legislative districts that they say would illegally favor Democrats in elections.
The plaintiffs, including Republican voters and two groups of GOP delegates, told Alan M. Wilner, a retired judge appointed to the case, during a Maryland Court of Appeals hearing that the map is loaded with irregularly shaped districts that violate a section of the state constitution calling for districts to be compact and to respect natural geographic boundaries.
“At the end of the case we are going to ask that the court declare the districts we’ve challenged unconstitutional,” said Strider Dickson, the attorney for Republican state Dels. Mark Fisher of Calvert County, Nic Kipke of Anne Arundel County and Kathy Szeliga, who represents parts of Harford and Baltimore counties.
