Two liberal groups, Common Cause Maryland and the League of Women Voters, applauded bill’s veto

When Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan recently vetoed a congressional-redistricting reform bill early in May that he described as “phony,” he was being unduly charitable. Mr. Hogan also called the measure a “smoke screen,” but if it was intended by the Democrat-dominated General Assembly to be a smoke screen, it was an epic failure. Political smoke…