Redistricting

Secretary of State Frank LaRose, one of the five Republicans on the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission, wrote to his fellow commissioners that legislative maps should be approved in just a few weeks.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected petition language Wednesday for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state's troubled system for drawing political maps.

The Republican former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court has joined an effort to come up with a new process to draw legislative and congressional maps.

The proposal, championed by two former Ohio Supreme Court justices, would create a 15-member commission that could not include politicians, lobbyists or other partisans to draw district maps for Ohio's Congressional districts and the state's House and Senate.

Petitioners need to gather 1,000 signatures to get ballot language before the Ohio Attorney General for approval.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

Ohioans have never been fond of Michigan, but "that state up north" has much to teach Ohio on drawing legislative district lines.

Whether it was the November election, unconstitutional legislative maps or the fight over abortion rights, there were a lot of stories that kept on giving throughout 2022. In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown sorts through the biggest political stories in Ohio this year.

For some time now, the Republican leadership of the Ohio General Assembly has been hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would give them what the Ohio Supreme Court would not.

Republican wins in state supreme court races could not only shape abortion and voting rights, but also the balance of power in Washington.