In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the future of Ohio's congressional map and two nights of Democratic presidential debates. Ann Fisher, host of 89.7 NPR's All Sides with Ann Fisher, joins the show.
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On this week's episode:
Supreme "Not My Problem" Court
Ohio’s congressional map will for a few more years. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision released Thursday, essentially ruled that excessively partisan gerrymandering is not a constitutional issue.
The that even if excessive partisan map making leads to unjust results, it’s not the role of the judiciary to fix the system. The responsibility belongs to lawmakers and voters. So, to put it another way, they’re telling lawmakers to fix a problem that they create.
Ohio will get new congressional and state legislative maps one way or another in 2021, thanks to voter-passed constitutional amendments. But the ruling was still a , who wanted a new map before the 2020 election.
Democrats Fight For The Spotlight
Twenty Democratic presidential candidiates over this week. With such a large field of candidiates, there was a lot of interrupting. Though there were no clear winners, a few candidiates performed well and likley gained some support.
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