Supreme Court of Maryland
2022 Legislative Districting
August 31, 2022
Summary
The opinion addresses challenges to Maryland's 2022 legislative districting plan and explains that the Court's role is limited to determining whether the adopted plan complies with constitutional requirements, not whether a preferable map could have been drawn. It holds that challengers must overcome the plan's presumption of validity with compelling evidence, and concludes that the challenges described in the opinion did not establish violations concerning compactness, contiguity, legislative privilege, or the use of single-member and multi-member subdistricts. The opinion also states that reallocating incarcerated individuals to their pre-incarceration domiciles for redistricting purposes is constitutional.