Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor working with redistricting group on language for possible amendment
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Maureen O’Connor poses for a portrait in the Court Law Library Reading Room, December 8, 2022, at Supreme Court of Ohio in Columbus, Ohio.
“Now that I’m retired, I can be involved with efforts to maybe pass another constitutional amendment,” O’Connor told a recent public forum for the Columbus Metropolitan Club. “And this time, the constitutional amendment depoliticizes the redistricting commission.”to helping with anti-gerrymandering efforts in her last “state of the judiciary” speech to the Ohio Judicial Conference in September of last year.
Though she didn’t talk about the attempt to change the vote proportion needed to pass constitutional amendments, O’Connor did criticize aThe former chief justice said Issue 1 on the 2022 ballot was “weaponized” during the campaigns for supreme court justices and the Ohio murder case in which a defendant appealed his high bail all the way to the the state supreme court was “totally distorted.”
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