Ohio Supreme Court issues overturns state legislative redistricting map, finding lawmakers violated new constitutional proportionality requirements adopted by voters. New maps due in 10 days. supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0… 
Still remarkable that the governor explicitly said he would not judge the map one way or another before *voting in favor of it*
Majority opinion finds the redistricting commission didn't even "attempt" to draw maps in compliance w/ the Constitution.
This process was driven by the Senate President, a lawyer who championed the new const. language, and the House Speaker, a former Supreme Court justice
This process was driven by the Senate President, a lawyer who championed the new const. language, and the House Speaker, a former Supreme Court justice
From Justice Pat Fischer's dissenting opinion. Essentially, if voters don't like a four-year, partisan map that was produced instead of a ten-year, bipartisan map, then they should vote out those who drew the undesirable map.
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