{"id":229,"date":"2022-10-14T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press-releases\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:30:50","slug":"common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Ohio Says Legislators \u2018Don\u2019t Have Free Reign Over Redistricting\u2019 After Appeal of Congressional Map Is Made to SCOTUS"},"template":"","class_list":["post-229","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"\u201cThe independent state legislature theory is a power grab and a threat to the checks and balances that make our democracy work,\u201d said Catherine Turcer, Common Cause Ohio\u2019s executive director. \u201cLawmakers don\u2019t have free reign over redistricting. This tactic is just another day in the endless cycle of bucking Ohio voters and the Ohio Constitution.\"","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7876}"],"related_issues":[62,109,420],"related_work":[112],"location":38},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<b>COLUMBUS, OH \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">GOP members of the Ohio General Assembly \u2014 including Senate President Matt Huffman, Speaker Bob Cupp and two other Republican legislators \u2014 announced they will be appealing the state Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on the second congressional map to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lawmakers are basing their appeal on the \"independent state legislature theory,\" a widely disparaged and self-serving concept that insists the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures ultimate authority over election matters regarding federal officials.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nLast July, the Ohio Supreme Court, in a bipartisan 4-3 decision, struck down the Ohio congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymander. The map was adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission and will be used for this 2022 election. While the court found the map was drawn to unconstitutionally favor the GOP and thus violated the redistricting rules added to Ohio\u2019s Constitution in 2018, the state legislature and then the Ohio Redistricting Commission failed to reconvene to draw a new map for subsequent elections.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many cases appealed to the highest court are never heard. The U.S. Supreme Court will make a decision regarding whether it will look into the legislators\u2019 arguments.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe independent state legislature theory is a power grab and a threat to the checks and balances that make our democracy work,\u201d <\/span><b>said Catherine Turcer, Common Cause Ohio\u2019s executive director.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cLawmakers don\u2019t have free reign over redistricting. This tactic is just another day in the endless cycle of bucking Ohio voters and the Ohio Constitution. Ohioans voted to put an end to gerrymandering and deserve districts that equitably represent our communities and voters. We hope the U.S. Supreme Court repudiates anything that challenges the checks and balances that make our democracy work.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An update on Common Cause\u2019s timeline \u2014 a press- and public-friendly tool used to track the ongoing Ohio redistricting process \u2014 can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/resource\/ohio-2020-redistricting-process-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Ohio Says Legislators \u2018Don\u2019t Have Free Reign Over Redistricting\u2019 After Appeal of Congressional Map Is Made to SCOTUS - Common Cause Ohio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press-releases\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio Says Legislators \u2018Don\u2019t Have Free Reign Over Redistricting\u2019 After Appeal of Congressional Map Is Made to SCOTUS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/OH.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press-releases\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/press-releases\/common-cause-ohio-says-legislators-dont-have-free-reign-over-redistricting-after-appeal-of-congressional-map-is-made-to-scotus\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Ohio Says Legislators \u2018Don\u2019t Have Free Reign Over Redistricting\u2019 After Appeal of Congressional Map Is Made to SCOTUS - 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