Republicans have claimed key victories in state Supreme Court races that will give them an advantage in major redistricting fights, while Democrats notched similarly significant wins with help from groups focused on defending abortion access.
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One of the biggest players was the Republican State Leadership Committee, which focused heavily on the court races in“Republican wins in the Tarheel State and Buckeye State ensure that the redistricting fights ahead in those states within the next decade are ruled on by strong conservatives who will follow the Constitution and don’t believe it’s their role to draw maps from the bench," said Dee Duncan, president of the committee's Judicial Fairness Initiative.
In Ohio, Republicans maintained their 4-3 majority on the court, with two GOP justices fending off challenges and a sitting Republican winning her bid for chief justice. The state's GOP governor, Mike DeWine, will appoint a justice to fill the resulting vacancy. In Illinois, which is surrounded by states with abortion bans that took effect after Roe was overturned, groups pushing to retain the state's Democrat court majority had warned a GOP takeover could result in similar threats to access.
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