Maryland redistricting plan advances

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A highly partisan and racially charged plan to redraw Maryland's congressional districts advanced in the state Senate late Monday, despite protests from good-government groups and an eleventh-hour attempt to derail it by one of the state's two African American members of Congress.

The plan's early momentum suggested that Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and Democratic legislative leaders could fend off challenges from Republicans and from within their own ranks to meet a well-publicized goal of pushing the measure through a special session of the General Assembly and into law by week's end.

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Joby Warrick 18 Oct, 2011

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