Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has come out in favor of reforming the state’s redistricting process, but also believes that it must be done through certain means. “If we do not act, I believe outside groups will move forward…
The need for redistricting reform in Ohio has come to the forefront, and more Ohio based newspapers are beginning to take notice.The Dayton Daily News highlights the work of…
Ohio Democrats have filed a lawsuit against state Republicans on the grounds that they violated the state constitution with their recent remap of state legislative districts. Article 11 of the state constitution requires districts to be contiguous and compact, and…
Network partners at the Brennan Center and Justice At Stake wrote an op-ed for Reuters on the threats to the judicial system. Adam Skaggs and Bert Brandenburg write about Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s outspoken attacks against judges who make decisions…
Network partners in the Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting have released a new report, The Elephant In The Room, which further details what exactly happened in the Ohio legislature’s redistricting process. After examining documents…
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This week, the United States Congress passed a compromise to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending caps and future programmatic cuts, and President Obama signed the measure almost immediately. Many of…
This week’s Beyond the Network takes a look at some of the issues happening outside the Midwest, and provides a national perspective on some of the issues that Midwest Democracy Network covers. Read on, read on!
Common Cause is asking for a thorough accounting of a trip Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took in January 2008 that could have been grounds for recusal from ruling on the Citizens United v. Federal…
State Sen. Tim Grendell is considering staying in Ohio’s Senate another two years, passing up the 98th District Ohio House seat he easily won.Director of Ohio Citizen Action’s Money in Politics Catherine…
From the sweltering Mississippi of 1964’s “Freedom Summer” to Washington’s marbled corridors of power to the rough-and-tumble of Illinois politics, Larry Hansen devoted his nearly 50-year career to making American democracy work better. Hansen, vice president of the Joyce Foundation…
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