Common Cause Ohio

Finalizing their series of panels covering the courts and democracy, the Ohio Fair Courts Alliance and Common Cause Ohio discussed the reality of fairness in the courts.

The task of drawing a new Congressional district map will go back to the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.

The U.S. Census Bureau won’t have official data ready for redistricting until this fall. But groups representing voters are asking Gov. Mike DeWine to get the process started now to draw legislative and congressional district maps.

Even though judicial races are considered nonpartisan in Ohio, judicial campaigns are usually funded with campaign contributions. A government watchdog…

Closed-door negotiations over a new way to draw Ohio’s Congressional map have broken down. Ohio lawmakers and representatives from citizens’ groups left…

The Supreme Court has ruled Arizona can allow an independent commission created there to oversee the drawing of congressional district lines. The ruling…