Ohio Republican legislators are faced with a major question: Stick with the 2022 congressional map or go back to the redistricting drawing board?
The major question facing lawmakers, according to Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, is whether to try to get the Ohio Supreme Court to accept the congressional map it used for the 2022 election, or whether to restart the process from scratch.The current map is in legal limbo of sorts,. It was the second time the court had done so. The map Ohio ended up using was a tweaked, somewhat less Republican-leaning version of one the court rejected the previous December.
Huffman and ex-Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp had tried to piggyback on a similar redistricting case from North Carolina, arguing that under an interpretation of the U.S. Constitution called the “independent state legislature theory,” that state courts could play no role in policing redistricting decisions from state lawmakers.
Huffman described this part of the decision as telling state courts: “You cannot impose your will or your view of redistricting on a legislature or the body that would be drawing in a particular state.” Huffman said he believes that under the state’s redistricting calendar, if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the appeal, the state legislature will have 30 days after that to approve a congressional map. If the legislature doesn’t approve a map by then, the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a Republican-controlled panel of state elected officials, will have another 30 days after that.
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