Ohio GOP lawmakers back off ballot proposal to extend redistricting deadlines: Capitol Letter
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stopped at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, as he traveled around Ohio promoting tourism. (David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com)David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com
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Not happening: Ohio Republican legislative leaders have abandoned a plan to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment in August extending deadlines for Ohio’s new redistricting process. As Andrew Tobias reports, Senate President Matt Huffman, who floated the plan in light of delayed census data, had said he wouldn’t go forward without bipartisan support. Democratic leaders expressed concerns about a rushed process.
Nathan Hudak's April 14 post of an image reading "West Park Backs the Blue" has activists and a civil rights attorney concerned that Gov. Mike DeWine's pick to be a Cleveland Municipal Court judge will be bias in favor of police officers.
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Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson allegedly used his influence to protect his grandson a reputed gang member from being arrested in connection to a fatal shooting that still remains unsolved two years later, according to a report. The New York Post reported that Frank Q. Jackson, a suspected member of violent street gang No-Limit 700, was the prime suspect in the broad-daylight August 28, 2019 shooting of 30-year-old Antonio “Bisket” Parra.
Jackson, who is now being sued by the murdered man’s family, is accused of preventing the arrest of his grandson when cops went to the 74-year-old Democrat’s house the night of the shooting. According to documents, police intended to take his grandson into custody, but they stood down after a conversation the mayor had with Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, according to the New Republic.
Judge Carla Baldwin. (From video | Mahoning Matter)
CLEVELAND The inaugural meeting of the new Ohio Black Judges Association Inc. will take place virtually at 7 p.m. today.
The group’s membership consists of all of the elected judicial officers serving on the bench in Ohio, as well as appointed magistrates and others performing judicial functions.
Officers and executive committee members will be sworn in during the inaugural event by Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice Melody Stewart. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor will give remarks, as will top Black legislative leaders.
The assemblage will hear from U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, Congressional Black Caucus chair, and state Rep. Thomas West, Ohio Legislative Black Caucus president.