Maryland Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Redraw Congressional Districts

A lawmaker from Maryland has introduced legislation to redraw the Democrat-dominated Old Line State’s congressional maps, potentially marking the latest escalation in a national battle over redistricting. “I submitted this because we need to fight back by sending a message to other states,” wrote state Sen. Clarence Lam, whose district includes the outskirts of Baltimore, in a thread on X announcing the legislation. Under his proposal, the state’s single Republican congressman, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, would be more likely to lose his seat. The redrawn map would divide Harris’s district—which sits across the Chesapeake Bay and encompasses the state’s Republican-friendly eastern border with Delaware—and extend its western border to the suburbs of Baltimore, a Democrat-heavy region....