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Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) during a legislative session in 2025. (Jonathan Newton\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Maryland will convene a special session on redistricting next month, part of nationwide Democratic retaliation against recent Republican gerrymandering across the South<\/a>.<\/p>

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It\u2019s too late to redistrict for this fall\u2019s midterms, when new Republican-leaning districts will be used in the South, some carved from Black-majority districts after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Democrats want to even the playing field for 2028.<\/p>\n

Maryland Democratic legislative leaders have proposed a constitutional amendment for November\u2019s ballot that would erase legal hurdles to drawing gerrymandered maps in time for 2028. An 8-0 map in Maryland would oust the state\u2019s only Republican in Congress, Rep. Andy Harris, chair of the House Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n

Last month, New York lawmakers similarly took the first step<\/a> to redraw 2028 districts. And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) is looking at eight more states to join Democratic-led redistricting for 2028.<\/p>

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Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) initially refused<\/a> to redistrict for 2026, citing legal concerns, but reversed course after the Supreme Court ruling and <\/b>a tough primary challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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