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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 (3 children)

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) (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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