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Ohio's current congressional map to stand and its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of federal court ruling to redraw it to be dismissed after the Supreme Court rules it lacks jurisdiction over the issue on appeals from Maryland and North Carolina, the high court saying the states must fight it out....The ruling says federal courts should not meddle in the crafting of a state's partisan-based congressional map, even if it is unconstitutional....Writing the dissent for the four liberals on the court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, called the decision by the high court's majority on Maryland and North Carolina's gerrymandering cases "tragically wrong." Kagan said the majority gives gerrymandering a pass on judicial review....Ohio's congressional map yields 12 Republicans in congress and four Democrats, three of the four Democrats female and two of the four Democrats Black....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywlemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is an experienced Black legal and political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a divided 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in gerrymandering cases on appeal from Maryland and North Carolina that it lacks jurisdiction to intervene relative to partisan congressional maps drawn by state legislatures, even if they are unconstitutionally gerrymandered, such decision of which likely means that an appeal from a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S.District Court for the Southern District of Ohio t hat deemed Ohio's current congressional map unconstitutional and ordered the state legislature to redraw it by June 14 will be dismissed. Tha

Ohio's attorney general to ask U.S. Supreme Court to override federal court's refusal to delay its order for state lawmakers to redraw Ohio's unconstitutional congressional map by June 14.... Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, seeks the delay pending the outcome of his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the state regarding a federal court ruling that deemed the current congressional map unconstitutional because it is drawn to favor Republicans elected to congress in Ohio over Democrats, among other issues.......By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio - A three-judge panel of the U.S.District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus on Thursday denied Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's request or motion to stay the case or to block a ruling from going forward that the same judicial panel issued last Friday that orders the Republican-controlled state legislature to redraw its congressional map by June 14, an order issued in conjunction with the court's finding last week that Ohio's current congressional map is unconstitutional. Frida

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost appeals federal court ruling that tossed out Ohio's unconstitutional congressional map to the U.S. Supreme Court and asks the federal court to put the case on hold pending the outcome of the appeal...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Monday filed a notice of appeal and asked a federal court to block implementation of a ruling by a three- judge panel issued Friday that deemed Ohio's current congressional map unconstitutional and ordered the state legislature to redraw it by June 14, a win for Democrats who say the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly arbitrarily drew the current electoral map to favor Republican candidates over Democrats for elections in Ohio to congress. The motion filed by Yost in the U.S.District Court for the Southern District of Ohio petitions the court to stay the cas

League of Women Voters of Ohio, ACLU win lawsuit as federal court throws out Ohio's congressional map after deeming it unconstitutional...."Today's victory ensures that voters' voices will be restored," said Jen Miller, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio.... The ruling against gerrymandering requires that the Republican controlled Ohio state legislature redraw its current congressional map as to voting relative to Ohio's 12 congressional seats, only four of them held by Democrats, namely U.S. Representatives Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, whose districts include Cleveland, and Joyce Beatty and Tim Ryan, a presidential candidate .....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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League of Women Voters of Ohio Executive Director Jen Miller By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio -A three- judge panel on Friday ruled Ohio's current congressional map unconstitutional and ordered the state legislature to redraw it by the 2020 election, a win for Democrats who say the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly favors Republican candidates for congress and the state's controversial congressional map is evidence of such partisan posture. The decision on Ohio's electoral map by the judicial panel of the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, which follows a series of similar rulings in other states across the country, in