Ohio dismissed legal challenges against the Republican-drawn congressional districts, meaning the same districts used in last year's elections will be used in 2024.
The Ohio Supreme Court has declared as invalid newly drawn legislative maps that would have retained Republican supermajorities in the state House and Senate.The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio and others, told the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday that they are willing to live with the U.S. House map approved March 2, 2022, which was used in last year’s elections.
The legal dispute has been going on for two years, with the court rejecting two separate congressional maps and five sets of Statehouse maps — describing districts for the Ohio House and Senate in Columbus asDespite the maps being deemed unconstitutional before the 2022 elections, they continue to be used due to Republicans essentially letting the clock run out after refusing the court’s order to write up new, fairer maps by the prescribed deadline.
Ohio’s political landscape has only grown more conservative in the last few cycles. Both the state House and Senate currently have GOP supermajorities. The state Supreme Court’s Republican chief justice, who had provided a swing vote against GOP-leaning maps, retired.
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