Abortion and gun control aren’t litmus issues for most Maryland voters

What happened last Friday at the U.S. Supreme Court was an outrage for Bethesda resident Julie Paquin. A transplant from California, Paquin, 68, said she has prioritized living in a blue state where most of her political positions are validated by local elected officials — a standard that she said has only been further entrenched by last week’s watershed decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion.