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Redistricting: AG Opinion on Constitutionality of SB1

7 months ago


Annapolis, MD - Today Attorney General Douglas Gansler issued an Opinion on the constitutionality and legal sufficiency of Senate Bill 1, the Governor's congressional redistricting map of the Special Session of 2011. The 4-page Opinion examines the tests and caselaw that determine constitutionality and legal sufficiency, and concludes "It is our view that nothing in Senate Bill 1 can be deemed an unconstitutional racial gerrymander." Read the Opinion here.

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