ohio redistricting

A vast majority of Americans support new laws to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, but Republican lawmakers seem set on eliminating regulations. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss Ohio's track record on gun legislation.

House Speaker Bob Cupp, a Republican, has announced the next Ohio Redistricting Commission will take place just two days before a court-ordered deadline for new state legislative district maps.

The Ohio Redistricting Commission has until May 6 to adopt a new set of state legislative district maps but, despite Democratic members urging them to meet, the rest of the commissioners show no signs of reconvening soon.

The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Ohio Redistricting Commission to adopt a new set of state legislative district maps by May 6, but so far there has been no movement from Republican leadership to reconvene.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled the fourth attempt at state legislative district maps was unconstitutional, leaving the different state officials in a state of limbo until a possible federal court decision.

The attorney representing a group of Youngstown voters said he is preparing to file another motion arguing the Ohio Redistricting Commission violated the Voting Rights Act when drawing the new congressional district map.

The group wanted the federal court to intervene in Ohio's congressional races and block the certification of the May 3 primary results, but the court said the request exceeded the scope of the original case.

Members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, who adopted new House and Senate district maps last week, filed responses in state supreme court to explain why they should not be held in contempt of court.

As expected, voting advocates who have opposed the three previous sets of legislative maps have asked the Ohio Supreme Court to invalidate this fourth set.

After days of work creating new maps with out-of-state experts, Republican members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission voted to approve a tweaked version of the previous unconstitutional district map. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, host Steve Brown talks with Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler about the latest in the legislative map saga.