Today, Maryland's high court upheld a lower court ruling to place a redistricting referendum on this November's Presidential Election ballot. We previously reported that Maryland Republican activists gathered enough petition signatures to subject the state's new Congressional districts to a referendum. Maryland Democrats responded with a lawsuit challenging the validity of the signatures, but lost at the Circuit Court level. The Dems appealed the ruling to Maryland Court of Appeals, but today the high court issued an order affirming the ruling of the Circuit Court, which ordered the redistricting referendum onto this November Presidential ballot. That makes it pretty official -- Maryland voters can expect to take positions on marriage equality, the Dream Act, gambling expansion and now Congressional redistricting.
See the Court of Appeals order below, followed by the original Circuit Court ruling that it upholds:
See the Court of Appeals order below, followed by the original Circuit Court ruling that it upholds:
