CBS News projected that Ohio Issue 1 will pass, enshrining the right to abortion in the state's constitution. Nov 8, 2023 House Republicans chose Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan as their nominee for House Speaker. Jordan relaunched his candidacy for speaker Friday after representative Steve Scalise dr...
“Issue 1 is a dangerous attack on the unborn, women and parents. It’s an extreme attempt to create abortion-on-demand and to eliminate reasonable health and safety standards for pregnant women,” reads the argument against Issue 1, written by Republican state Sens.Kristina Roegnerof Hudson a...
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who chairs the board, presented a three-page, single-spaced summary of his own. It said Issue 1 would “repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering" approved by large margins in 2015 and 2018, and “elim...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a long-running public records case pitting the state's top law enforcement officer against a national watchdog group that is digging into his ties with the Republican Attorneys General Association. At issue is ......
State Sen. Paula Hicks-Hudson, D-Toledo, one of the two Democrats who sit on the ballot board, told reporters after it met that “this was done and it was created for the main purpose of hoodwinking voters.” Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose,...
Previously, state Senate President Matt Huffman, a Republican, has suggested that lawmakers could come back with another proposed amendment next year that would undo Issue 1, although they would have only a six-week window after Election Day to get it on the 2024 primary ballot. Hamilton County...
Virginia Democrats held their majority in the state Senate Tuesday, but control of the House of Delegates remained unsettled late into the evening, with vote counting still underway in key races. The Democrats' victory in the upper chamber ended the prospect of a Republican trifecta that would ha...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio voters approved a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana on Tuesday, defying Republican legislative leaders who had failed to pass the proposed law. Passage of Issue 2 makes Ohio the 24th state to allow adult cannabis use for non-medical purposes. "Marijuana is no longer...
After a legal skirmishstruck the initiated statutefrom last year’s ballot, Secretary of State Frank LaRose reintroduced an act to legalize, tax and regulate the adult use of cannabis, according to a copy of LaRose’s letter Tuesday to the General Assembly. If the Republican Statehouse superma...
“Not to mention the fact that Ohio has just become a much more conservative state. And so this is going to be an uphill battle for Democrats. It almost doesn’t matter who the Republican nominee ends up being,” she added. 8:56 p.m. 1:19:40, May 11, 2022 CNN Projection: Tru...