The decision by Maryland’s Democratic Senate President Bill Ferguson to reject a redistricting proposal supported by House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Gov. Wes Moore was an act of political bravery. In August, I wrote a piece for The Baltimore Sun about why redistricting was bad for America and why it wasn’t needed for Democrats to regain control of Congress. I was worried that Maryland’s Democratic leaders would succumb to short-sighted calculations and political pressure to advance a plan that removed the last Republican from our state’s congressional delegation.

By appointing a commission to study redistricting, that’s exactly what Moore did. Ferguson made a different choice and articulated the practical and moral case against redistricting, and then held his

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