{"id":225,"date":"2022-02-22T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/maryland\/press-releases\/victory-federal-judge-orders-baltimore-county-to-submit-redistricting-plan-that-complies-with-voting-rights-act\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:05:38","slug":"victory-federal-judge-orders-baltimore-county-to-submit-redistricting-plan-that-complies-with-voting-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/maryland\/press\/victory-federal-judge-orders-baltimore-county-to-submit-redistricting-plan-that-complies-with-voting-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTORY: Federal Judge Orders Baltimore County to Submit Redistricting Plan that Complies with Voting Rights Act"},"template":"","class_list":["post-225","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD \u2013 In the federal court challenge to an illegal redistricting plan, brought by Black voters in Baltimore County and several civil rights organizations, Federal Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby granted a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the County\u2019s plan and ordering them to submit a new plan that complies with the Voting Rights Act by March 8.","featured_image":"","press_type":145,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7852}"],"related_issues":[62,442],"related_work":false,"location":23},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD \u2013 In the federal court challenge to an illegal redistricting plan, brought by Black voters in Baltimore County and several civil rights organizations, Federal Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby granted a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the County\u2019s plan and ordering them to submit a new plan that complies with the Voting Rights Act by March 8.\r\n\r\nThe following statement is on behalf of the plaintiffs and legal team:<\/i>\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is huge win for the many Black voters, community leaders, and civil rights organizations that challenged Baltimore County\u2019s illegal redistricting plan. We are determined to ensure that a fair map is created with at least two majority-Black districts\u00a0that afford Black voters a fair\u00a0and effective opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. At every stage of this process, the community has been engaged, vocal, persistent, and timely in pushing the Baltimore County Council to do the right thing. These community voices, strengthened by\u00a0Judge Griggsby's\u00a0order today, are calling on Baltimore County leaders to be better than Alabama, to create of districts that value the voices and representation of all residents. It\u2019s time for Baltimore County leaders to stop wasting taxpayer money defending an indefensible plan that dilutes the voices of Black voters and refuses to embrace the strong diversity of the County.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe federal court lawsuit challenging Baltimore County\u2019s unlawful redistricting plan was brought by seven individual voters \u2013 Charles Sydnor, Anthony Fugett, Dana Vickers Shelley, Danita Tolson, Sharon Blake, Gerald Morrison, and Niesha McCoy \u2013 and the Baltimore County Branch of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters of Baltimore County, and Common Cause \u2013 Maryland.\r\n\r\nPlaintiffs are represented by Andrew D. Freeman of Brown, Goldstein & Levy, John A. Freedman, Mark D. 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