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Ohio’s redistricting fiasco highlights fragility of the rule of law underpinning our democracy: Steven H. Steinglass
CLEVELAND — This has been a tragic 12 months in Ohio for many who consider within the rule of legislation.
Within the first 5 months of 2022, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom dominated 5 occasions that proposals of the Ohio Redistricting Fee for the decennial redistricting of the Ohio Normal Meeting violated the Ohio Structure. The fee, enabled by the exceptional intervention of a three-judge federal district courtroom panel, ignored every of the courtroom’s selections. Consequently, Ohio voters on Nov. 8 will elect state legislators from districts distorted by partisan gerrymandering.
All Ohioans needs to be involved over such a brazen violation of a primary democratic precept –– the rule of legislation. Why did 4 attorneys within the fee majority and the Ohio secretary of state reject authoritative judicial selections?
Partially, the reply is almost all occasion’s want to guard incumbent legislators and procure a veto-proof and referendum-proof benefit within the Normal Meeting.
In 2011, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom authorised a state redistricting plan characterised by partisan gerrymandering. The courtroom defined that the Ohio Structure, at the moment, didn’t prohibit partisan gerrymandering. The courtroom famous that Ohio voters may change this.
In 2015, Ohio voters did. By a 71-29 % ratio, they authorised an modification declaring that districts shall not “be drawn primarily to favor or disfavor a political occasion,” and that districts shall “correspond carefully to the statewide preferences of the voters of Ohio.”
The 2015 modification offers two paths for avoiding partisan gerrymandering. First, the seven-person Ohio Redistricting Fee (governor, secretary of state, state auditor, and 4 legislators representing each political events) can undertake a ten-year redistricting plan with a bipartisan majority.
At present, 5 fee members are Republicans; two are Democrats. So a bipartisan majority required the votes of not less than two Republicans and two Democrats. Alternatively, the fee can undertake a four-year plan with a easy majority. However this plan should adjust to limitations on splitting counties and with nonpartisanship and proportionality requirements.
On Jan. 12, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom held that the four-year plan authorised by the 5 Republican fee members violated the Ohio Structure.
The courtroom majority spoke clearly and repeatedly. And there’s no room in a system ruled by the rule of legislation for the courtroom’s selections to be defied. But that occurred. And it occurred 5 occasions.
Early within the litigation, a bunch of Republican activists filed a parallel go well with, asking a three-judge federal district courtroom panel to order implementation of a redistricting plan that had been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Courtroom.
Understanding why that is stunning requires a dive into federal constitutional legislation and judicial federalism. First, federal courts don’t have any authority to treatment partisan gerrymandering. Second, state courts, not federal, are the ultimate arbiters of the which means of state legislation. Even the U.S. Supreme Courtroom acknowledged this within the infamous 2000 case of Bush v. Gore. The three-judge federal courtroom panel on this 12 months’s state legislative redistricting litigation acknowledged the primary precept however ignored the second.
The federal courtroom’s intervention eradicated all chance of great bipartisan discussions inside the fee, and it resulted within the adoption of a plan for the 2022 election of the Normal Meeting that had been discovered unlawful by the Ohio Supreme Courtroom.
Steven H. Steinglass is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at Cleveland-Marshall School of Regulation.
These occasions ship a poignant message concerning the fragility of the rule of legislation and our democracy. If there’s a hopeful be aware, the spectacle of the fee defying the Ohio Supreme Courtroom, and violating the Ohio Structure, could immediate a brand new effort to amend the state structure.
In her prescient concurring opinion within the courtroom’s first resolution on this litigation, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, recognizing the maintain of partisan forces on the redistricting course of, recommended Ohio voters would possibly must mobilize to provoke an modification that when and for all removes partisanship from the redistricting course of by creating a really unbiased, nonpartisan redistricting fee.
Steven H. Steinglass is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at Cleveland-Marshall School of Regulation.
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Ohio State will clash with the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the CFP National Championship on Monday, January 20. It’s the first ever National Championship under the new, expanded CFP format, and it takes place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ohio State is favored by 9 1/2 points over Notre Dame in the second-largest point spread in the 10-year history of the playoff. The Buckeyes have won their three playoff games by 14 points or more. Notre Dame beat Penn State 27-24 in the semifinals on a field goal in the waning seconds.
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Three power-play goals and the goaltending of Liam Souliere helped the No. 3 Gophers men’s hockey team rebound with a 6-1 victory over No. 11 Ohio State on Saturday at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
“It just was not a good look to us last night,” coach Bob Motzko said. “Tonight, absolutely the other way around from the first shift. All four lines, all the defensemen, Liam was great in net, and give our guys credit, we responded. I hope it’s a lesson for us, and I hope that’s a game to get us going now.”
The Gophers (18-4-2, 9-2-1 Big Ten) scored three times in the first eight minutes.
A penalty on the Buckeyes for too many players on the ice put the Gophers on the power play just 86 seconds into the game. Mike Koster quickly converted the opportunity to open the scoring with 17:18 left in the first period.
A little over five minutes later, Mason Nevers and Connor Kurth scored 15 seconds apart to give the Gophers a 3-0 lead with 12 minutes left in the first period.
Less than two minutes into the second period, the Gophers went on the power play again, and Koster again converted to make it 4-0.
Jimmy Snuggerud made it 5-0 with a power-play goal with 6:05 remaining in the second period.
The Texas Longhorns fell just short of advancing to their first CFP National Championship game for the second year in a row, losing 28-14 to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. And while the final score may not indicate, the Longhorns were a yard away from potentially sending the game to overtime late in the fourth quarter.
After back-to-back defensive pass interference calls on what was shaping up to be a 75-yard drive, all Texas needed was a yard to punch it into the endzone and tie the game at 21 with under 4 minutes remaining in regulation.
However, after the first-and-goal run up the middle for freshman running back Jerrick Gibson was held for no gain, the controversial halfback toss play call was made. With Quintrevion Wisner lined up to his left, Quinn Ewers was in the shotgun as he tossed it to Wisner, on the first of two disastrous plays that doomed the Longhorns’ national championship hopes.
“That’s one of those plays, if you block it all right, you get into the end zone,” Steve Sarkisian said of his play-call. “We didn’t, and we lost quite a bit of yardage.”
So what went wrong on the toss play? Well, as always the devil is in the details in football. During his post-game interview, starting left tackle Kelvin Banks explained exactly what went wrong for the Longhorns on the ill-fated toss play. He was one of a few Texas players that was asked about the sequence after the game.
“I saw the boundary safety to come down [Latham Ransom], and I thought it was gonna be a big hole behind me, because that’s kind of how the play [was] designed to go,” Banks said. “I’m supposed to kick him out. Trey hits the hole behind me, and then while I’m kicking him out, I just I hear screaming, y’all, so I look, I’m turning my left, and then Downs is making the play.”
So on the surface, the toss seems to indicate that the play was supposed to see the Longhorns capture the edge and run wide to the goal-line. Banks revealed that is not the case. Instead, as shown in the video above, the hole that is vacated by Banks pulling is supposed to be where Wisner is designed to cut it back and score.
However, that is where the heads-up play is made by Buckeyes safety Caleb Downs, who shoots the gap left open by Banks, forcing Wisner to continue running wide, where he then is corralled for a seven-yard loss by Ransom.
If Downs is fooled by Banks pulling and runs with him instead of shooting the gap, then this play may be remembered entirely differently. But as Sarkisian said post-game, Ohio State’s defense made the play, while Texas didn’t, which unfortunately for the Longhorns ended up costing them the game.
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