Politics

The U.S. House panel investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results described Tuesday how the president explicitly called on his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, for a “wild” protest — resulting in an insurrection. Trump exerted extraordinary influence over the mob, who marched to the Capitol on his orders and undertook the violent attack, testimony showed. Many dispersed only when Trump asked them to do so, hours after mayhem broke out.

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s defense filed a motion last week asking for perjury charges against her to be dropped, saying Mosby did not deceive anyone when she self-certified she suffered “adverse financial consequences” during the COVID-19 pandemic. At issue is the the $40,000 and $50,000 prosecutors Mosby withdrew from her city retirement account to purchase two Florida properties. A provision of the CARES Act waived penalties on withdrawals for people who were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fractious Baltimore County school board could look a lot different following an election season that begins with three primaries this month. The board now has 12 members, but only Board Chair Julie Henn and Vice Chair Rod McMillion are certain to return. Four appointed members could leave after their terms expire in December, and three other seats will be on the July 19 primary ballot.

This isn’t their first rodeo. Both Donna Edwards and Glenn Ivey, each Prince George’s County heavyweights, have led their share of Maryland political campaigns, even squaring off against each other once before. Edwards, who represented the 4th District from 2008-2017 as Maryland’s first Black congresswoman, also ran for a U.S. Senate seat in a nationally watched race in 2016, and bid unsuccessfully for Prince George’s County executive two years later.

Maryland U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin says evidence collected by the Jan. 6 committee during its five weeks of public hearings will prove “devastating” to efforts by former President Donald Trump’s supporters to minimize the seriousness of the Capitol attack. “I think the cumulative effect of this will be devastating for those who wanted to try to dismiss the meaning of Jan. 6 and sweep it under the rug,” the Montgomery County Democrat told The Baltimore Sun as he prepared for Tuesday’s U.S. House select committee’s hearing.

Several Maryland organizations alleged that Montgomery County’s touch-screen ballots disadvantage candidates in certain primary election races in a letter sent to the county and state boards of election Monday. The full list of candidates running in certain races in the county primaries is displayed across multiple digital pages, the letter says, with inadequate notice that voters must press a small button labeled “more” to view additional candidates on the next page.