COLUMBUS (AP) — Advocacy groups who are challenging Ohio’s political maps have objected to the latest round of Statehouse districts.
In a filing Thursday, lawyers for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative told the state Supreme Court that the partisan breakdown of the maps passed last month is “nearly identical” to that of maps that prompted their initial litigation in 2021.
They argued the plan would disenfranchise Ohio’s communities of color.
Republican Senate President Matt Huffman rebuked the action, describing it was “another desperate power grab by Washington, D.C., special interests.” He noted that the current plan won the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s unanimous bipartisan approval.