High court clears August election in Ohio, says lawmakers within rights to violate law they passed -
In a 4-3 decision, the high court found that the Legislature’s constitutional right to determine the dates of elections trumps any laws they might pass to limit them.
If approved, the higher threshold could thwart approval of a November constitutional amendment to enshrine access to abortion in the Ohio Constitution. Similar measures elsewhere have passed with just under 60% of the vote. Before changing their tune, Republican legislative leaders initially appeared to agree that they needed to pass legislation to set the election for August. Companion bills doing just that were introduced in both the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House. Both ran into roadblocks.
Donnelly, a Democrat, opined that, even if the Ohio Constitution doesn’t require the Legislature to prescribe special election rules the way that it did, “the fact of the matter is that it did. Now it has to follow them.”
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