{"id":1237341,"date":"2022-01-24T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1237341"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:23:11","slug":"national-democrats-intervene-to-protect-gerrymandered-maps-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-democrats-intervene-to-protect-gerrymandered-maps-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"National Democrats Intervene To Protect Gerrymandered Maps In Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-democrats-intervene-to-protect-gerrymandered-maps-in-maryland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1237341&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is preparing to wage a legal battle to protect gerrymandered Congressional maps in the state of Maryland, Fair Maps Maryland announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/fairmapsmd.org\/news\/2022\/01\/ultra-partisan-dccc-seeks-to-take-over-partisan-gerrymandering-case-from-maryland-legislature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fair Maps Maryland<\/a>, an organization aligned with Republican Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/12\/larry-hogan-america-united-2022-maryland-legislative-session\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry Hogan<\/a> which seeks to end partisan gerrymandering in the state, the DCCC filed a motion to intervene in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/23\/maryland-democrats-lawsuit-fair-maps-congressional-districts-2022-larry-hogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ongoing litigation<\/a> over Democrats\u2019 proposed Congressional maps. If granted, the DCCC would become a legal defendant in the case on the side of defending the gerrymandered maps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ultra-Partisan DCCC Seeks to Take Over Partisan Gerrymandering Case from Maryland Legislature \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf hypocrisy has a name and a face, this is it,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DouglassMayer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DouglassMayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full press release \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aN3XwYmVMg\">https:\/\/t.co\/aN3XwYmVMg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fair Maps Maryland (@FairMapsMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FairMapsMD\/status\/1485661576850034689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The motion was filed by attorney Marc Elias, former general counsel to the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and founder of Democracy Docket, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>&nbsp;dedicated to covering election law news from a progressive perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Elias has been an outspoken critic of gerrymandering done by Republicans in states like North Carolina, but would now be defending gerrymandering done by Democrats if the motion to intervene is granted. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/larry-hogan-maryland-redistricting-congressional-maps-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Experts Give Democrats \u2018F\u2019 Grade For Trying To Further Gerrymander Maryland Congressional Maps)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Republican State Leadership Committee recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/rslc-2022-midterm-elections-gerrymandering-republicans-campaign-ad-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched a new ad campaign<\/a> targeting Democrats for hypocrisy on the issue of gerrymandering. Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder has been a leading critic and activist against Republican gerrymandering across the country, but has been silent on gerrymandering in blue states like <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/larry-hogan-2022-senate-poll-chris-van-hollen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Justice is engaged in several lawsuits to liberalize election laws and eliminate gerrymandering done by Republicans, but Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken no such legal action in blue states like Maryland, Illinois or Oregon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is preparing to wage a legal battle to protect gerrymandered Congressional maps in the state of Maryland, Fair Maps Maryland announced Monday.According &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}