Ohio Supreme Court rejects statehouse maps, ending hopes of full May primary

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The Ohio Supreme Court rejected state House and Senate maps for the third time, effectively ending any hopes of a complete May primary.

late Wednesday, effectively ending any hope of a May 3rd primary with both legislative and statewide races.

"The commission should retain an independent map drawer – who answers to all commission members, not only to the Republican legislative leaders – to draft a plan through a transparent process," the court wrote in its decision, which did not list a specific author.

Stanford University professor Jonathan Rodden, who analyzed the maps for groups suing over them, wrote

 

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So how about holding the lawmakers in contempt?

There are actually people here on Twitter, in THIS post, telling the GOP “you can fire these judges, why are you even going through this?” - which, in this modern age of Trump/Putin Authoritarianism, has GOT to be the most unpatriotic and unAmerican thing one could say…

Sounds like the Ohio Supreme Court should just make a mapping after every Consensus that only changes if the State Grows/Shrinks in Jurisdictions.

all about the greed of money

Why aren’t these justices locking up these criminals? Are they ignoring a judges direct order, or is the judge blind & impotent? Either charge, arrest, try, convict, sentence & imprison these unAmerican enemies of democracy, or replace these jello spined judges. Ohio is waiting.

If there were only a way to bill these Republicans obstructionists what they are costing the taxpayers. What an immoral amount of time and money.

Ohh no. How are the Republicans going to win (CHEAT) now?

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