Ohio AG Twice Rejects Ballot Language for Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission (www.democracydocket.com)

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

How about putting them in fucking jail for breaking the law?

[-] worfosaurus@lemmy-api.ten4ward.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd be down with that, FartsWithAnAccent! But the constitution would have to be updated with that clause. Right now, it just says that they have to do a thing without specifying what happens if they don't do that thing

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or they could just be held in contempt of court because it was a court order that that blatantly disregarded.

[-] worfosaurus@lemmy-api.ten4ward.social 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately they were only ordered to draw a new map, which they did. So they did indeed "comply". The court can't tell them how to draw the map, only that it needs to be redrawn.

It's not a particularly smart system

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