Gov. Wes Moore defended his redistricting advisory commission Friday, one day after the commission met behind closed doors and voted to proceed toward redrawing congressional maps in what one member called a “pre-ordained” decision.
“I’m very proud of the work that the commission is doing,” Moore said Friday. “They have run the most transparent and above-board redistricting advisory commission inside this entire country.”
In a brief meeting Thursday evening, the Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Commission voted to ask the public to submit new congressional district maps, and said it would hold two more meetings, that were not immediately scheduled. It came even though a special session of the General Assembly, where many thought redistricting might have been taken up, came and went this week…