From the Canton Repository:
Republicans, who dominate the commission, said they couldn’t comply with the Ohio Supreme Court’s redistricting demands and the state Constitution at the same time. Democratic members of the commission said Republicans simply lacked the will to fulfill their duties.
Now, the Ohio Supreme Court must decide what to do with a commission that won’t follow its orders. The commission and court are operating under a new set of rules, approved by voters in 2015 to curb partisan gerrymandering, so there's no roadmap for what happens next.
Meanwhile, Ohioans don’t have districts for 99 House and 33 Senate seats – lines that are needed to elect party nominees for representatives on May 3. The commission’s inaction throws those races, and the imminent primary, into even more turmoil.
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