Ohio Supreme Court needs to rule without further delay in gerrymandering cases: editorial

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EDITORIAL: 'The two state legislative maps and the congressional map are before the Ohio Supreme Court and ripe for decisions. The court must issue those rulings as soon as possible, for the good of the state, and of the integrity of the process.'

. For congressional candidates, eight weeks away, on March 2.

Implicit in those constitutional reforms was a rejection of Ohio’s partisan gerrymanders of 2011 that created the “Snake Along the Lake,” pushing Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s Toledo district over a bridge and into Cleveland, or the “” of U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan that quacked its way up from his Champaign County home in southwest Ohio into towns west of Cleveland, gobbling up ultra-liberal Oberlin.

That makes it all the more urgent that -- if the high court does feel it must order fixes small or large in all the maps -- it do so as soon as possible to give the redistricting commission and General Assembly time to act to fix those mistakes., “those who favor a skewed partisan map [may] try to run out the clock,” to shamelessly give an edge to legislative partisans. “To forestall that,” we wrote then, “any adverse Supreme Court ruling ...

 

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