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On January 14, 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court declared the map a partisan gerrymander, violating Article XIX of the Constitution of Ohio, in a 4-3 decision. The Ohio General Assembly had 30 days to draw a new map, but declined to do so, passing the buck to the same 7-member political Ohio Redistricting Commission in charge of Ohio's contentious ...
Following the age-limit retirement of O'Connor, a new Republican-majority Supreme Court ruled in favor of the legislature's maps. O'Connor joined the campaign of Citizens Not Politicians Ohio, which sought to place an amendment on the 2024 ballot to replace the Ohio Redistricting Commission with an independent citizens' redistricting commission ...
The map was passed by the Ohio House of Representatives on September 15 [3] and by the Ohio Senate on September 21. The bill passed by the Senate included an appropriations provision intended to prevent the bill from being placed on the 2012 ballot by petition [4] and was passed again by the House the same day. [5]
Ohio's 3rd congressional district is located entirely in Franklin County and includes most of the city of Columbus. The current district lines were drawn in 2022, following the redistricting based on the 2020 census .
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In May 2019, a panel of three federal judges ruled that Ohio's congressional district map was unconstitutional and based on gerrymandering. [6] [7] A new map was expected ahead of the 2020 election. [8] However, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rucho v.
Democrats hold a 51-49 majority in the U.S. Senate and Republicans have several chances this fall to pull ahead. Ohio is one of three states, along with Montana and West Virginia, that supported ...
The Ohio redistricting process is designed to encourage the legislature to pass a map with bipartisan support, but the majority party can pass maps that last for four years (as opposed to the normal ten years) without the support of the minority party. [12]