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The Ohio Democratic Party is considering “everything,” from a fight in the courts to a referendum on the ballot.

As fights about redistricting boil over nationwide, advocates in Ohio are readying their defenses against districts yet to be drawn by the GOP-majority legislature.

The drama over legislative district mapmaking isn’t limited to Texas, where Republicans and Democrats are in a standoff over efforts to redraw lines. Once again, Ohio lawmakers are drawing legislative districts.

Ohio lawmakers are hashing out the final details of the biennial state budget this week. Congressional redistricting will be the next big debate in Columbus.

Gerrymandering was once again a watch word in Ohio politics this year, as lawmakers had to draw new maps to replace the ones used because of a federal court order in 2022.

The two Democrats on the seven member Ohio Redistricting Commission voted for maps they said were unfair because they were a little better than previous proposals. But the Democrats say the only way to get truly fair maps is to make a change in the redistricting process.

Despite the maps being deemed unconstitutional before the 2022 elections, they continue to be used due to Republicans essentially letting the clock run out after refusing the court’s order to write up new, fairer maps by the prescribed deadline.

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.

Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp and Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman went to the U.S. Supreme Court to get the Ohio Supreme Court off their backs on gerrymandering congressional districts. But a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision may doom their effort to failure.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled the second congressional map adopted by Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission and currently in use for the 2022 election violates partisan gerrymandering prohibitions and is therefore unconstitutional.