Ohio's Republican-run redistricting commission has re-passed a set of legislative maps that the state Supreme Court already ruled were an illegal partisan gerrymander favoring the GOP, after a three-judge federal court announced last month that it would implement those same maps if the state failed to adopt valid districts by May 28.
This outcome was prophesied by the dissenter in the federal case, Judge Algenon Marbley, who said at the time that the commission would "do nothing" and "await a map with the desired partisan favoritism" rather than try to craft maps that comply with the Ohio constitution. In fact, the GOP commissioners did worse than nothing—they simply gave their approval to maps they knew were unconstitutional.
Embarrassingly, the federal court majority (made up of two Trump appointees) insisted the commission would not run out the clock because "we must presume that Ohio's officials are public servants who still view partisan advantage as subordinate to the rule of law."
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Of course, there's no reason to think these two judges, Amul Thapar and Benjamin Beaton, will care in the slightest. The Ohio Supreme Court might, but its options are limited since the same amendments to the state constitution that prohibit partisan gerrymandering also forbid the court from implementing its own map.
Various plaintiffs have proposed creative workarounds to this problem, such as asking the state court to rule that a map created by independent experts complies with the constitution. That would give those same plaintiffs a forceful argument before the federal court, which doesn't face the same constraints, but so far, the justices have declined to take such steps.