and an active voter. Plaintiff Goldenhar currently resides in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District. Kate Schroder of Clifton easily defeated Nikki Foster of Warren County in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, setting up a general election race against Republican incumbent Steve Chabot, who has held the seat for the better part of a quarter century.Schroder was a heavy favorite in Hamilton County, but she won her opponent's home county as well. He called the ruling "a fundamentally political act that has no basis whatsoever in the Constitution. "We are convinced by the evidence that this partisan gerrymander was intentional," said a unanimous three-judge panel, giving the state until June 14 to submit a new map.
The Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Ohio League of Women's Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups brought the lawsuit challenging Ohio's 2012 congressional …
"In recent years, courts in other states have been willing to rule against single-party dominance by declaring that maps for congressional or state legislative districts are unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District is one such example.
Those decisions are expected by late June.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.The state must come up with a new plan for the 2020 election, the unanimous three-judge panel said.Get breaking news alerts and special reports.
"The court said the map, drawn for the 2012 election and used since, "dilutes the votes of Democratic voters by packing and cracking them into districts that are so skewed toward one party that the electoral outcome is predetermined." Just last week, a federal court in Michigan said that state's Republican legislature must come up with a new plan for its congressional districts, declaring that the votes of Democrats were unconstitutionally diluted.But the Supreme Court has yet to establish a test for determining when the essentially partisan act of drawing political boundaries becomes too political.Confronted with similar challenges in the past, the justices concluded that it would be impossible for the courts to know when partisan gerrymandering crossed a constitutional line.
Kate Schroder, democratic candidate for Ohio's first congressional district, speaks during a question and answer session held by the Bold New Democracy Work Group, Tuesday, Feb. 18, …
The map-makers will likely not be able to split blue Hamilton County the way it is now.The 67-year-old Republican will be running for his 12th term in the 1st Congressional District this year.
Schroder ended up with 68% of the unofficial vote count, including 55% in Warren County.Foster is from Mason in Warren County; and needed a decisive victory there to defeat Schroder.Schroder – mother, public health professional, cancer survivor – believes she can pull off the trick that a long string of Democratic congressional candidates have tried and failed to do over the years: put an emphatic end to the long political career of Chabot.After defeating a strong challenger in Foster, Schroder is left with less time to campaign because of a primary election that was delayed for nearly six weeks. He has only one loss – Democrat Steve Driehaus rode the Obama wave in 2008 and shoved Chabot out of office, but Chabot came back to defeat Driehaus two years later and has been sitting there ever since.WVXU Senior Political Analyst Howard Wilkinson spoke with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about the probability that when the votes from Ohio's primary are counted Tuesday night, it is likely to be a very low turnout election.You would think that, at some point, this gerrymandering trick Ohio Republicans played eight years ago to create a Democrat-proof district for U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot would wear thin.Kate Schroder, democratic candidate for Ohio's first congressional district, speaks during a question and answer session held by the Bold New Democracy Work Group, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in Cincinnati. Ohio voters just made gerrymandering more trouble than it’s worth ... to group one race of voters into a district.