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Ohio AG Twice Rejects Ballot Language for Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission
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Isn't Ohio one of the states that repeatedly used illegal districts in blatant defiance to court rulings?
Yup. They just kept submitting maps that were getting rejected for being unconstitutional and eventually the court just had to let it go because you can't just not have an election and they couldn't do anything else about it.
We need to add some kind of recourse to the rules. Something like "if you can't put together a constitutional map by the deadline, then the minority party gets to submit one for consideration instead".
How about putting them in fucking jail for breaking the law?
I'd be down with that, FartsWithAnAccent! But the constitution would have to be updated with that clause. Right now, it just says that they have to do a thing without specifying what happens if they don't do that thing
Or they could just be held in contempt of court because it was a court order that that blatantly disregarded.
Unfortunately they were only ordered to draw a new map, which they did. So they did indeed "comply". The court can't tell them how to draw the map, only that it needs to be redrawn.
It's not a particularly smart system