Two of Maryland’s top Democrats have been eager to jump into the redistricting arms race unfolding across the country and draw boundaries that could oust the state’s lone congressional Republican from office — but the third Democrat needed to run that special session, the president of the Maryland Senate, has refused.

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) said Tuesday in a letter to Senate Democrats that his chamber will not move forward with redrawing the boundaries in a special session, despite what he called the “all-out attack on the Democratic Party and the core of democracy” that President Donald Trump’s redistricting push has caused.

Democrats hold the Maryland governor’s mansion and supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly, making the deep-blu

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