Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Redistricting Maps Again!

Ohio congressional map is rejected.

Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Illinois are the Midwestern states.

Democrats are weak and Republicans are extreme. That is how most voters see it.

Republicans see opportunities in courting white voters who feel that President Joe Biden is not delivering results. Many of these state legislatures are Republican controlled and they continue to push their fascist agenda despite them being very unpopular.

Republicans continue to make gerrymandered maps. The voters decided that they want a fair redistricting map. Republicans ignore it and continue to make districts that favor them. Now they have 30 days to figure out how to  

Ohio has a second primary in August 2022.

Ohio lost a congressional district and now it will have to figure out how to make these 15 districts fair.

If the state legislature cannot come up with new maps in 30 days, the task will fall to the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a group of seven officials including the governor and the secretary of state.

In its 4-3 ruling, the court said the latest map — which was passed earlier this year by the Ohio Redistricting Commission without Democratic support — again violated a 2018 constitutional amendment aimed at preventing partisan gerrymandering.

The map created 10 safe Republican seats and five Democratic seats. However, the high court’s majority said the latest map “packed” Democrats into three congressional districts that would heavily favor a Democratic candidate, while unfairly splitting counties and cities around heavily-Democratic Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus.

GOP commissioners called it their best attempt at avoiding partisan favor while abiding by the Constitution’s specific provisions, which are in use this decade for the first time.

Majority justices said evidence showed a map that didn’t “unduly favor” Ohio’s majority party would have at least six Democratic-leaning districts, leaving nine Republican-leaning districts. The justices cited studies by several election experts hired by the voting-rights and Democratic groups who challenged the maps.