Ohio's state Supreme Court has struck down the state's new congressional map as a Republican gerrymander that violates the state constitution
on North Carolina's new, GOP-drawn congressional map, Democrats said they would take the case to that state's Supreme Court — where the majority of justices were elected as Democrats.
It was unclear Friday whether the court ruling would delay Ohio's May 3 primary — including the hotly contested race for the state's open Senate seat. Congressional candidates have until March 4 to file with state officials for the ballot. If the state Legislature uses its entire 30-day window to produce a new map, it would leave fewer than three weeks for candidates to file before the deadline.
The new lines preserved two strongly Democratic seats, packed densely into cities: the districts currently held by Reps. Shontel Brown and Joyce Beatty in Cleveland and Columbus, respectively. But the rest of the state was carved into 13 districts designed to elect Republicans, albeit with competitive seats in Cincinnati, Dayton and along the state's northern border with Michigan and the western half of Lake Erie.
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