Add to ORKGIn the first five months of 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled five times that proposals of the Ohio Redistricting Commission for the decennial redistricting of the Ohio General Assembly violated the Ohio Constitution. The commission, enabled by the remarkable intervention of a three-judge federal district court panel, ignored each of the court’s decisions. As a result, Ohio voters on Nov. 8 will elect state legislators from districts distorted by partisan gerrymandering. All Ohioans should be concerned over such a brazen violation of a basic democratic principle –– the rule of law. Why did four lawyers in the commission majority and the Ohio secretary of state reject authoritative judicial decisions
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Redistricting activists have long argued that partisan gerrymandering poses a fundamental threat to ...
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In Vieth v. Jubelirer, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court determined that, at least for the mome...
The Supreme Court recognizes that [p]artisangerrymanders... [are incompatible] with democraticprinc...
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Rucho v. Common Cause was the latest in a line of opinions re...
“The right to vote is the right from which all other rights ultimately flow,” Attorney General Merri...
In the first five months of 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled five times that proposals of the Ohio...
On May 3, 2019, a panel of three U.S. Federal court judges in Cincinnati ruled that the boundary lin...
In a watershed 2015 referendum, Ohioans decisively approved a state constitutional amendment that pr...
In January of 2011, the infamous “Snake by the Lake” was born.2 Stretching along the southern coast ...
In November 2016, a federal court struck as unconstitutional Wisconsin’s redistricting map under bot...
In recent years, the judiciary’s inability to hold state legislatures accountable for partisan gerry...
Political gerrymandering involves the intentional manipulation of legislative boundaries by one poli...
Twice in the last two decades, the Supreme Court has come within two votes of declaring partisan ger...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Rucho v. Common Cause decision has closed the federal court door to ...
Redistricting activists have long argued that partisan gerrymandering poses a fundamental threat to ...
Gerrymandering through the method of redistricting poses a grave threat to our democracy. Redistrict...
In Vieth v. Jubelirer, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court determined that, at least for the mome...
The Supreme Court recognizes that [p]artisangerrymanders... [are incompatible] with democraticprinc...
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Rucho v. Common Cause was the latest in a line of opinions re...
“The right to vote is the right from which all other rights ultimately flow,” Attorney General Merri...