BALTIMORE — A judge on Friday deferred ruling on whether to accept or reject a redrawn map of Maryland’s congressional districts that she had ordered after concluding the original map was unfair to Republicans.
Judge Lynn A. Battaglia suggested during an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court hearing that it would be inappropriate for her to rule on the General Assembly-approved map for two reasons.
One is that the state attorney general has appealed her March 25 order in which she ruled that the original map was too partisan and must be rewritten by the legislature. That appeal has left her order in limbo while it is considered by the Maryland Court of Appeals.
