Constitution of Maryland

So here I thought, okay, we have a chance.

We have a shot, and I'm, I'm thinking, maybe we'll have enough people that will not want to amend the Maryland Constitution to draw districts where it just gives Democrats an advantage every single time.

I thought may- maybe there's a silver lining here.

Maybe we have enough people in the state that want common sense to prevail, and they don't want districts drawn where you've got Baltimore City in the same district with, like, Eastern Shore.

That's the problem.

Right now, we're trying to fight against Question 3 that is going to redraw districts in a way that a, a Republican could never go to Congress ever again.

They want to amend the Maryland Constitution.

It is a, a terrible thing to do.

It's like they're trying to confuse you.

And providing that nothing in the Maryland Constitution provides applicable criteria for the boundaries of a congressional districting plan.

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Those are regular Marylanders reading question three, which will be on the ballot that you will receive in the mail if you haven't already, right? Does it come out today?

I'll read it for people.

Go ahead.

It says, "For the purpose of clarifying that certain requirements apply only to districts for the election of members of the Senate of Maryland and the House of Delegates, authorizing the General Assembly to grant original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court of Maryland to review the congressional districting plan of the State, and providing that nothing in the Maryland Constitution provides applicable criteria for the boundaries of congressional districting plan."

Tell me what that means.

So I'm going to read the language because ballot language can be incredibly legal and technical here.

So it says, for the purpose of clarifying that certain requirements apply only to districts for the election of members of the Senate of Maryland and the House of Delegates, authorizing the General Assembly to grant original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court of Maryland to review the congressional redistricting plan of the state, and providing that nothing in the Maryland Constitution provides applicable criteria for the boundaries of congressional jurisdiction.

redistricting plan so it sounds like there's three parts and you tell me if i have any of this wrong number one does nothing for state legislative districts how we operate there is how we will continue to always operate number two if someone wants to challenge a congressional redistricting plan spoiler alert they do every single time no matter what it goes straight to the supreme court so they can't judge shop and go find a friendly judge and say you know overturn the whole map it has to go to the supreme court which it will go to anyways and then third it essentially says maryland is on the same level playing field as the rest of the nation when it comes to congressional redistricting right

do i have that right that is correct and that allows us on in whole to be able to do redistricting safely in the future there is no new maps just to be clear for folks no new maps is part of this but we want to be able to lay the groundwork if we choose to go forward with redistricting mid-cycle in the future, that we can safely do so and also recognize that any appeals to that will go straight to the Supreme Court.