Lisa Forbes has won the Democratic nomination for the only open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court, which holds sway over how to implement an amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights.
The seat is one of three up for election in the fall that will determine whether Democrats can flip the court from its current 4-3 Republican majority.
In November, Forbes will face Dan Hawkins, a Republican judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. Just weeks ago, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children, a decision that temporarily halted in vitro fertilization treatments in the state and sparked a national debate over reproductive rights. A race for one seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court last year was the costliest state high court campaign on record – $42 million – and eventually flipped control from conservatives to liberals.
But Democrats see an opening after 57% of Ohio voters backed a reproductive rights measure last fall. They plan to draw attention to the court’s influence over the amendment’s future and see the races as a possible way to chip away at the Republican Party’s longstanding control of all three branches of government in Ohio.
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