Maryland lawmakers opened a special session on Aug. 3 to begin changing the state constitution so it no longer sets rules for how the state’s congressional districts are drawn—a question that would go to Maryland voters on the Nov. 3 ballot.
To reach the ballot, the amendment needs a three-fifths vote in both the House of Delegates and the state Senate. Democrats hold more than enough seats in each chamber. “I believe we wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think that we had the votes to move forward,” Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Democrat, said at a news conference before the session opened….