Former Ohio Supreme Court justice Yvette McGee Brown remembers when the Ohio General Assembly was run by Vern Riffe and Stan Aronoff.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.
A graduate of Ohio University and Ohio State University, Brown has spent her whole life in the state. The initiative to bring a redistricting commission made up of Ohio citizens, rather than elected officials, is currently in the phase of signature collection before its July 3 deadline to submit those signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office. The aim is to have the ballot measure to voters in the November general election.
The congressional maps that are in place in Ohio are the same ones the Ohio Supreme Court found to be unconstitutional in July 2022, with no plan in sight to redraw them, though they need to be redrawn after this year’s general election. The current Ohio General Assembly was elected under Statehouse maps declared unconstitutional by a bipartisan Ohio Supreme Court majority five times. O’Connor was the swing vote on that majority before she was forced by law to retire due to age.
No matter the political party, the two former justices see a state with every position of power filled by the same party as a failure of democracy, because the decisions become about staying in power, rather than making change for the better.
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