The city of Columbus has joined a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy conditioning anti-terrorism funding on changes to local election administration. The Trump administration wants to impose new proof of citizenship requirements, broader post-election audits, and a shift to hand-marked paper ballots. Those changes align with provisions in the Save America Act and the […]
Ohio’s local governments cannot fast-track new data centers without giving specific reasons, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week. The decision put an Ashville referendum, which would strike down the village council’s approval of a local data center project, back on track to make Ashville’s ballot. It also makes municipalities that pass future emergency resolutions […]
Amid lawsuits, allegations of domestic violence, and calls to step aside from both of Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senators, Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller is still running for reelection in November and his constituents say they are looking for consequences and accountability. Heather Tuck-Macalla lives with her family in Bay Village, a town just west […]
A Florida congressman said last month that forcing tens of thousands of Haitians to return to the violence-ravaged country will actually help it. But a humanitarian worker on the ground in the nation’s capital said it will only make a dire situation much worse — in multiple, mutually reinforcing ways. And that’s aside from what […]
This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. Correctional staff failed to start CPR the moment they discovered Jennifer Wade lifeless in her Cuyahoga County jail cell last year, state […]
The lone Ohio Supreme Court justice with a “D” next to her name on the November general election ballot has sued to get rid of that party label, as part of her efforts to preserve what she says is a delicate balance between democracy and the rule of law. Justice Jennifer Brunner has been on […]
Former Judge Colleen O’Donnell, the Republican challenger hoping to unseat the Ohio Supreme Court’s only remaining Democratic justice, has been emphasizing her work as an immigration judge and her “originalism” stance in her campaign. Democratic Justice Jennifer Brunner won her seat in 2020. Ohio Republican lawmakers made the races for the state’s highest court openly […]
With Ohio’s Haitian refugees losing their protected status Monday, Springfield’s large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with the community said on Tuesday. They face being forced to return to a nation that the International Rescue Committee says is “in the grip of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis.” Right now, […]
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that a woman does not have the right to file a delayed appeal for damages as the victim of a crime, despite the fact that there was legal and legislative confusion over her right to compensation. In a recent decision, the state’s highest court upheld an appellate court decision […]
A federal judge sitting in Cincinnati, Ohio on Friday ruled that federal authorities are making illegal immigration arrests. Then she dismissed a case seeking to stop the practice. U.S. District Judge Sarah D. Morrison, a 2018 Trump appointee, ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had made many arrests in Ohio that “deeply trouble the […]
