Since Ohio changed its certification deadline from 60 to 90 days ahead of the general election, state lawmakers have had to adjust the requirement twice, in 2012 and 2020, to accommodate candidates of both parties. Each change was only temporary.
And that is exactly why the courts in Ohio would have changed the deadline even if the legislature didn't. It demonstrates that having the deadline 90 days in advance of the election served no rational purpose, and would simply have served to keep one party off the ballot. Anyone with experience practicing law in Ohio knows that's what our courts would have done. Of course, there was another obvious workaround that the Democrats took advantage of anyway.