BALTIMORE — Maryland’s attorney general said he will appeal a judge’s decision that ruled a map of the state’s congressional districts drawn by Democratic legislators was too partisan.
The “notice of appeal” was filed Wednesday with the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest state court. The document, signed by Attorney General Brian Frosh and two of his attorneys, said simply that the state planned to contest last Friday’s ruling in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court barring the state from using the map and ordering the General Assembly to craft new district boundaries.
In her 94-page order, Lynne Battaglia — a retired state appeals court judge assigned to the case — sided with Republican lawmakers and voters who had argued that the initial map was drawn with “partisanship as a predominant interest.”
