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Ohio Supreme Court rules that Ohio Redistricting Commission must respond to revised


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The Ohio Supreme Court has set a 4 p.m. Tuesday deadline for the Ohio Redistricting Commission to respond to new arguments from the League of Women Voters of Ohio and others that its latest congressional redistricting maps unconstitutionally favor the Republican Party.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court has set a 4 p.m. Tuesday deadline for the Ohio Redistricting Commission to respond to new arguments from the League of Women Voters of Ohio and others that its latest congressional redistricting maps unconstitutionally favor the Republican Party.

The Supreme Court has rejected three sets of Republican-drawn maps, citing new anti-gerrymandering rules that voters passed in 2015 and 2018, and the most recent set of state legislative and congressional maps were just completed in the last couple of weeks.



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