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A spokesperson for the state Attorney General Brian Frosh, a Democrat, said it was still was reviewing the ruling and had not yet decided on an appeal.
The ruling, in which the judge said Democrats had drawn an “extreme gerrymander,” was the first time this redistricting cycle that the party had a congressional map rejected in court.
A Maryland judge Friday threw out the Democrat-controlled state legislature's congressional district map on account of "extreme partisan gerrymandering" and ordered it to draw a new one by March 30.