The Challenges of State Constitutional Litigation

The people of ohio, more than 71 % of the public, back in 20 15, pased a constitutional amendment that essentially borrowed partisan jurymandering in the creation of their legislative maps. The state supreme court took a look at that map and said, yes, this violates the state constitution. These are enforcible provisions. You need to go back to the drawing board and re draw these maps. And so what we've seen essentially is a merry go round where the there have been now four different maps that have been produced by the ohio re districtand commission that have been struck down by the state supreme court. Most recently, the commission actually repassed a map that the court