Ohio’s Redistricting Fiasco Highlights Fragility of the Rule of Law Underpinning Our Democracy

Steven H. Steinglass

Ohio’s Redistricting Fiasco Highlights Fragility of the Rule of Law Underpinning Our Democracy

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Abstract

In 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?

Original language	American English
State	Published - Sep 14 2022

Keywords

Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio Redistricting Commission
gerrymandering

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Constitutional Law
Law
State and Local Government Law

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Ohio’s Redistricting Fiasco Highlights Fragility of the Rule of Law Underpinning Our Democracy

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