Posted on 03/26/2022 5:45:50 AM PDT by cotton1706
A bipartisan majority on the Ohio Supreme Court has rejected Republican-drawn maps for U.S. congressional districts and state legislative districts a combined four times this year, handing Republicans rejection after rejection on the grounds that their proposed maps are illegally slanted in their own favor.
And yet, Republicans may end up on top anyway, thanks to a combination of stalling tactics and tricky legal maneuvers.
Early voting in the state’s primaries begins April 5. And amid ongoing legal uncertainty over the maps, Republican legislative leaders in the state, who are also key members of the state’s GOP-dominated redistricting commission, have refused to consider pushing those primaries back.
That, and the threat of federal courts intervening in the fight, have forced Democrats and fair maps advocates into a tense race against time — one they fear they may lose.
The time pressure is part of Republicans’ “grand strategy to run out the clock” and wind up with gerrymandered maps in their favor, said Richard Gunther, an emeritus professor of political science at The Ohio State University, and one of a small team of people who helped draft an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment that Ohio voters overwhelmingly supported in 2015.
“They delayed the process and then dragged their feet throughout all of these various maps and the appeals processes, and now they’re coming up against this artificial deadline,” Gunther told TPM, referring to the Republican-dominated redistricting commission and state legislature. “There is nothing in the Ohio constitution that requires a primary in May.”
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So? That's the leftist Democrats' stock and trade. Screw them.
It is just So admirable that the Dims NEVER HAVE GAMED THE SYSTEM.
And thanks to MSM we all know how grateful we should be for letting us know.
Panic Porn from a Partisan Media Shill and Stooge.
Good! Democrats have gerrymandered without restraint in California, Illinois, New York and several other states where they can. Republicans need to do the same whenever and wherever possible. If anything, Republicans have been far too soft and have not gerrymandered anywhere near hard enough this cycle.
Well, if it gets her to be defeated in November, I’d say it’s worth it. The Dems are gerrymandering left and right and blue state courts have overwhelmingly let them do it - Republicans have to take their Ws where they can.
Letting the clock run out so that the districts can be used in 2022 is a smart, albeit late strategy change. I wish Rs had done that in NC and elsewhere
Exactly.
Republicans in some states should’ve anticipated the lawfare and done what OH (is now) doing and run out the clock to stop activist judges from overturning. Kavanaugh & co over at SCOTUS have basically set the precedent of the Purcell principle of not ordering a redraw when the voting periods are beginning.
NC et al should’ve probably waited to pass a map until the last minute like the Dims in NY did
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