Ohio Supreme Court clears the way for current congressional map to be used in 2024
Jack Birle
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The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the current congressional maps in the Buckeye State, clearing the way for the same maps to be used in the 2024 election.
The congressional map, which was used for the 2022 election, was struck down by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2022 under a previous chief justice, but the ruling was remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court in June and sent back to the Ohio Supreme Court.
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The lawsuit was dismissed on Thursday after petitioners requested the case be dismissed under concerns the current map would be replaced by a map that was more favorable to Republicans.
In a Sept. 5 filing, the petitioners also worried that the legal challenges to the congressional map would mean “Ohioans would remain in limbo, for months at least, as to what map will be used in 2024.”
The current congressional map in Ohio has 10 districts represented by Republicans and five represented by Democrats. Two of the Democrats in the Ohio congressional delegation represent districts with a Republican advantage, per the Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index.
Despite the redistricting process mostly taking place between 2021 and 2022, the congressional maps for several states remain in limbo due to legal challenges.
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In Alabama, a federal district court struck down a proposed congressional map for the state arguing the new map “plainly fails” to adhere to the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that a second majority-black district be made in the state. The previous map in the state, used in the 2022 election, was ruled as violating the Voting Rights Act by the high court earlier this year.
Several other states, including Florida and North Carolina, are likely to see their congressional maps redrawn after legal challenges to the maps used for the 2022 elections.