The Ohio Redistricting Commission faced a midnight deadline on Monday after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a previous Republican-drawn state legislative map on March 16, the third time the court had done so.
An Ohio House and Senate district map plan introduced on Monday, March 28, 2022 by Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Republicans have approved their latest state legislative map plan, abandoning an unfinished plan produced by a bipartisan pair of consultants and instead opting for a plan nearly identical to one the Ohio Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional.
“We’re working with a number of bad options,” Huffman told reporters earlier Monday. “And if one of them is we do nothing, at least this is doing something.” Jen Miller, executive director of the Ohio League of Women Voters, said she thinks Republicans on the redistricting commission committed contempt of court by approving a map nearly identical to the one the court previously rejected. The LWV is among the groups that sued and successfully got the previous sets of maps thrown out.
The March 16 ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court faulted the old plan for containing a significant number of slightly Democratic-leaning toss-up districts, with no corresponding Republican ones. But besides the political leanings of the map, the court also faulted the process behind it, citing the fact that Republicans had their staff drew the map without Democratic input, introducing them shortly before approving them for a vote.
Parallel to the state process, there is a Republican-backed lawsuit that seeks for a federal court to overrule the Ohio Supreme Court and restore the plan the state court rejected on March 16. A court hearing is set for Wednesday. It’s possible state Republicans will to convince the federal court to accept the plan adopted Monday night since, unlike the other state legislative plans, it hasn’t been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court.
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