Ohio voting-rights groups want to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio’s unconstitutional congressional map.
“Petitioners have no desire to launch another round of maps and challenges, given the recent history of map-drawing in Ohio,” the Tuesday filing said.
That history included the court's rejection of two separate congressional maps and five sets of Statehouse maps — describing districts for Ohio House and Ohio Senate in Columbus — as gerrymandered in favor of the ruling Republicans. Nonetheless, those maps had to be used to elect candidates in 2022 as the disagreements ended in legal limbo.
Since the voting advocates' lawsuit was first filed early last year, the political landscape has grown only more conservative. GOP supermajorities at the Statehouse grew, and the state's high court, which would decide their case, saw the retirement of a Republican chief justice who had provided a swing vote against GOP-leaning maps.for Ohio's 2024 ballot.
Before Tuesday's filing, the Ohio Supreme Court had asked both sides in the lawsuit to file briefs explaining how
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