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14 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: Redistricting: Ohio Supreme Court strikes down congressional map, forcing another round of drawing dispatch.com/story/news/pol… via @DispatchAlerts
"We also hold that the plan unduly splits Hamilton, Cuyahoga, and Summit Counties."
Re: the competitive argument.
"Article XIX does not require, prohibit, or even
mention competitive districts," Justice Donnelly writes.
"The enacted plan splits Hamilton County into three districts for no apparent reason other than to confer an undue partisan advantage on the Republican Party," Donnelly writes.
"The General Assembly produced a plan that is infused with undue partisan bias and that is incomprehensibly more extremely biased than the 2011 plan that it replaced," Donnelly writes.
UPDATED with details from the decision, which includes a fair amount of back-and-forth between the justices.
dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

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13 Jan
The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the #redistricting commission to redraw legislative maps. What happens next?
dispatch.com/story/news/pol… via @DispatchAlerts
.@ohiogop chair @Paduch on Republican Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor: "It’s a failure of leadership of the Chief Justice to take 90 days to make this decision and leave only 10 days for the commission to clean it up. She is responsible for this mess."

dispatch.com/story/news/pol…
Super in the weeds on which House Democrat will be on this commission:
DeWine has to reconstitute the committee (he's talking with lawyers about that) then the House Minority Leader has to pick who is on the commission.
E. Sykes stepped down 12/31 and Dems just picked A. Russo.
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12 Jan
BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Ohio Supreme Court invalidates state House and Senate maps

dispatch.com/story/news/pol…
supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0…
"Section 6 speaks not of desire but of direction:
the commission shall attempt to achieve the standards of that section. While Section 6 contemplates that the standards set forth in it may not come to fruition, it
nevertheless requires the commission to try to achieve them."
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16 Nov 21
NEW: Republicans propose new Ohio congressional redistricting map #ohio #redistricting
Better image in this long link: file-us.clickdimensions.com/ohiosenategov-…
BREAKING: Republicans propose new #congressional redistricting map, likely two safe Democratic seats dispatch.com/story/news/pol…
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3 Nov 21
Congressional map uploaded to House committee expected to review House GOP map. #ohio #redistricting Image
House Democrats say they saw this map at 10:42 a.m. and haven't had a chance to review.
See the Ohio House GOP's proposed congressional map here: dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

Senate GOP expected to offer another map @ 1.
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13 Sep 21
Ohio Redistricting Commission hearing in Warrensville Heights has begun. Democrats expected to offer an amendment to the maps. You can follow along here. ohiochannel.org/live/special-e…
Democrats are offering their proposed amendments, which would give them 42 House and 13 Senate seats.
Here's what was uploaded to Dave's Redistricting:

House: davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::…

Senate: davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::…
Under the proposed Democrat map, Forest Park would be in the 29th district but keep it with Springdale, Mount Healthy and North College Hill.

There would be one GOP House district in western Hamilton County, likely pitting Rep. Abrams v. Rep. Seitz. Don't see GOP liking that.
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12 Sep 21
Six of seven Ohio Redistricting Commission members are present. (@NirajAntani is filling in for @matthuffman1).

Michael Odioso, of Green Township, says media repeats GOP-bashing talking points. Creating this map isn't going to be easy and people should cut commission some slack
Christine Corba of @lwvdayton expresses concerns that maps don't meet constitutional requirements approved by voters. She brings up proportional language.
legislature.ohio.gov/laws/ohio-cons…
Mark Erhardt says he wanted Republicans and Democrats to work together on a map before the commission voted to accept one. He also wants commission members to look at citizens' maps.
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