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Could Justice Brett Kavanaugh be the surprise slayer of partisan gerrymandering? Maybe — because he's actually seen the consequences up close.

Chief Justice John Roberts is now the court conservative closest to the center and the focus of the arguments for reining in partisan redistricting, including a case from Maryland.

House Speaker Michael Busch has withdrawn the amendment from consideration this year, but plans to introduce it again next year.

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch is withdrawing his legislation to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution, his chief of staff said Saturday.

Proponents of redistricting reform shouldn't get too excited about a court ruling throwing out Maryland's gerrymandered 6th District.

By a vote of 50-48, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, and he was sown in shortly afterward, while protesters shouting outside the Capitol.

An estimated 40 to 50 people gathered at the intersection of Main Street and Churchville Road in downtown Bel Air Wednesday to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Gov. Larry Hogan has ruled out involving the Maryland State Police in any investigation of allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl more than 30 years ago in Montgomery County. State Sen. Cheryl Kagan urged the governor in a letter to act.

Maryland's U.S. senators call sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh "very serious" and "credible."

We now see what happens when a simple majority puts a nominee on the Supreme Court: Meaningless vetting of a pivotal nominee.

With Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the highest court in the land, abortion is back in the limelight. As one might expect from a moderate I am torn on my opinions about this.

By disregarding a long-recognized procedural convention, and imposing a delay well in excess of customary, Sen. Mitch McConnell opened the door to procedural gyrations in federal judicial appointments.

A group of Maryland Democratic women call on Gov. Larry Hogan to support an effort by House Speaker Michael E. Busch to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's extensive record requires serious examination and raises lots of questions. Here are some important ones he needs to answer.

You don’t need to overturn Roe to get rid of the right to abortion. Given the “undue burden” standard, all you need is a certain type of regulation and a certain type of new justice on the court, and the right can just be regulated away.

Get to know Brett Cavanaugh. The Marylander is the president's selection to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

President Trump is expected to announce his choice for the Supreme Court Monday. But if a conservative court is to consider overturning Roe v. Wade for political reasons, it may be putting the high court's legitimacy at risk.

All presidents claim broad mandates for virtually all their campaign promises. But President Trump has no clearer decree than fidelity to the list of Supreme Court candidates he campaigned on.

As we celebrate the nation's birthday, many in the media will be focused and hyperventilating over the retirement of Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court. In

Mike Pence has outpaced all other vice presidents in casting tie-breaking votes since Alben W. Barkley, President Truman’s first vice president, who broke ties seven times in a 10-month period between September 1949 and June 1950. This is the executive branch run amok.

The media war this election season is going to be ugly, thanks to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy — both because of the upheaval caused by his retirement and because of his decision in Citizens United.

Abortion — an issue that has been muted in Maryland politics — resurfaced Tuesday as Democrat Ben Jealous questioned Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s commitment to women’s reproductive rights as President Donald J. Trump prepares to nominate a Supreme Court justice who could threaten Roe v. Wade. 

Collins says she'll stand up for women's reproductive rights - except it's clear she won't.

Jules Witcover: Just when you might have thought the stakes in the November midterm congressional elections could not have been higher, along comes a Supreme Court appointment to raise them even more.

Progressives are terrified that the  Supreme Court might start doing its job, says Jonah Goldberg.

Dear Justice Anthony Kennedy: I just heard that you’ve announced your retirement as of July 31. Congrats. At the age of 81, and with more than 30 years of service in the most demanding judicial position in the country, I have no doubt you've earned it. But why now? Your timing couldn't be worse.

Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement means the Supreme Court will be entirely in Donald Trump's hands.

President Donald Trump is going to get a Supreme Court candidate confirmed, and that candidate is going to be more conservative than Justice Kennedy. And it's unlikely to matter.

After the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that public employees cannot be forced to pay union fees, labor union leaders in Maryland called it another attack on worker rights and vowed to step up their fights to improve workplaces.

With latest court decision, DACA is fully revived; President Trump should declare it a victory and walk away.

Opponents of partisan gerrymandering may soon have reason to rejoice after the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments Wednesday in the case of a group of Republican voters in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District who claim Democrats intentionally discriminated against them.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a Maryland redistricting case that has the potential to reshape how congressional boundaries are drawn nationwide.

Some close observers of the Supreme Court thought the fix was in when the justices agreed to hear a Maryland redistricting case this term. Even if they're right, it won't completely solve the problem.

The New York Times editorial board decided to operate like a super PAC last week, says Jonah Goldberg.

Affordable housing for the poor has long remained elusive in the Baltimore region's most prosperous communities—and under pressure from fair housing advocates,

Affordable housing for the poor has long remained elusive in the Baltimore region’s most prosperous communities—and under pressure from fair housing advocates,

Supreme Court must set limits on political manipulation of voting districts.

President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate his travel ban a "clear victory," but there's nothing clear about it.

The U.S. Supreme Court could make a decision that opens the door to new standards curbing a centuries-old practice of partisan gerrymandering of legislative

Democrats should read Martin O'Malley's deposition in the redistricting lawsuit and imagine how they would feel if his words were coming out of Larry Hogan's mouth.

Maryland's convoluted congressional districts were drawn with an eye toward ousting a Republican incumbent and replacing him with a Democrat, former Gov. Martin O'Malley acknowledged as part of a high-profile legal challenge to the maps winding its way through federal court.

Here's why it's in Democrats' self-interest to back Hogan's redistricting reform plan.

The nation's Catholic bishops return to Baltimore next week for their annual fall assembly — their first such gathering since a presidential election that split the church as it divided the nation.

Senate Republicans wrong to reject Supreme Court nominees sight unseen but not to reject those they judge too liberal

Rejection of Texas law regulating abortion clinics out of business shows that even a short-handed Supreme Court can uphold legal precedent

The Supreme Court on Monday empowered police to stop people on the streets and question them, even when it is not clear they have done anything wrong.

Redistricting is not just geography. It is also political science. There is compelling state interest, as well as a federal legal requirement, in meeting requirements of the Voting Rights Act.

A case involving a Maryland-based order of nuns appeared to divide the Supreme Court on Wednesday as attorneys argued the Obama administration overstepped its authority by requiring faith-based employers to facilitate health insurance coverage for contraception.

Antonin Scalia's death touches off a cringeworthy GOP push to reject President Obama's Supreme Court nominee sight unseen

Mario Correa's "Commander," about a gay governor running for president, to get a timely premiere by Vagabond Players as part of Baltimore Playwright's Festival