By Howard Lee Gorrell Maryland legislators will return to Annapolis for a three-day special session next week. They will consider a constitutional amendment that could affect congressional redistricting for the 2028 and 2030 elections after the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
“So, my ask is simple: Do not let the democratic process die in the Free State. Debate it, discuss it, make adjustments if necessary, and put it to a vote,” said Gov. Wes Moore in his fourth State of the State address before a joint session of the Maryland General...
The House bill HB0488, which proposes a new congressional redistricting map for the state’s eight districts, has been referred to the 12-member Senate Rules Committee made up of the main leadership of the Senate of both parties. In the 2018 Maryland League of Women...
The Democratic delegates on the House Rules and Executive Nominations voted 18-6 on Jan. 25 to send the map drawn by the 2025 Governor's Redistricting Advisory Commission to the House of Delegates. Some of these delegates should re-read their 2018 campaign promises on...
As the first to challenge Maryland’s congressional district apportionment for the 2010 decade, I was heartened two days later (July 22) when House of Delegates Majority Leader, Del. David H. Moon (D-Montgomery Co.), announced his plan to draft legislation that would automatically redistrict Maryland if other states engage in out-of-cycle redrawing of congressional districts.
The obligees and obligors in the Free State have wondered if the coming session of the Maryland General Assembly will see more action on legislative bills dealing with the Maryland Child Support Administration. Since 2004, I have been working to reform Maryland’s...
After Gov. Larry Hogan signed a quickly redrawn congressional district map into law last week, agriculture-related electorates living in the Western Maryland and Eastern Shore regions were pleased. Primarily located in Western Maryland, the new 6th Congressional...
It is crystal clear that, as one of the bluest states in the country, Maryland could be the nation's most hypocritical state in dealing with the congressional redistricting! Last month, the national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a motion to...
The bottom line of this commentary is to tell Maryland obligees (formerly the term of “custodians”) and obligors (once the word of “non-custodians”) that “Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement has allowed state child support programs to request a waiver to extend the federally required four-year review of the Child Support Guidelines. Maryland has received a two-year extension until December 2022,” according to the Child Support Administration (CSA) of the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) in their Aug. 31, 2020, email to me.
As he did for the House committee, Howard Gorrell, a longtime advocate for fair congressional districts, compares the statements of Democratic senators with their votes in committee. The decennial Senate Standing Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting voted...
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