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CINCINNATI (CN) The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday revived Ohio’s lawsuit against the Treasury Department over delayed census data and remanded the case for a district judge to determine whether an injunction is necessary to ensure a mid-August deadline is met.
A three-judge panel heard oral arguments in the case last week, and released a terse, two-page unpublished opinion just six days later.
The suit stemmed from the federal government’s failure to meet the statutory deadline regarding the release of census data, which Ohio and other states use in their redistricting process.
A federal judge dismissed the suit for lack of standing in March and determined Ohio will still be able to redraw its state and federal voting districts in time for the 2021 election cycle. The state needs to draw its new maps by Sept. 1, a process that includes three public hearings.
Sixth Circuit Says Ohio Has Standing to Sue Census Bureau Over Late Redistricting Data
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CINCINNATI (CN) The constitutionality of two Tennessee abortion regulations was debated before an appeals panel on Thursday, as the state seeks to reimpose a ban on selective abortions and those performed after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
The restrictions, passed as part of House Bill 2263 in June 2020 and signed into law a month later, impose criminal penalties on doctors who perform abortions when the woman seeks the procedure based on the unborn child’s gender or race, or when the fetus has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Physicians also faced Class C felony charges for performing abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat under the statute.