The Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously passed new House and Senate district lines this week, but it's unclear whether the plan will last for two years or eight years.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission approved new state House and Senate district lines on Tuesday night, as seen in these posters unveiled at its meeting.
The reason for the uncertainty is because the Ohio Constitution’s new legislative redistricting rules don’t explicitly lay out what happens now after the state’s initial redistricting process in 2021 and 2022 went off the rails. If the new redistricting plan passed earlier this week is considered just to be a court-ordered modification of that initial plan, that means the new maps would also expire two years from now.
Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, the commission’s Democratic co-chair who stood next to Faber as he said that, also said she thinks the question will be up to a court to decide. But, like Faber, Antonio said she personally thinks the new maps will last for eight years.Steven Steinglass, a retired Cleveland State University law professor and expert on the Ohio Constitution, expressed similar sentiments, in an interview.
“We had learned legal scholars who made an argument that it was very clear in the constitution that the intent was that if your first vote isn’t bipartisan, it’s a four-year map and a six-year map,” Faber said, adding that he personally thinks “there’s a very strong argument for an eight-year map.” Rudensky’s clients, which include the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, the Ohio Environmental Council, the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and several individual Ohioans, are now deciding whether to file similar legal challenges to the new maps, Rudensky said. That discussion, he said, also includes the question of whether to raise the subject of how long the new maps can last.
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