GOP lawsuit asks Ohio Supreme Court to block abortion rights measure from November ballot

[irisblue]

source--https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/29/gop-lawsuit-seeks-to-boot-abortion-rights-measure-from-november-ballot/70490982007/

snip--"A new lawsuit from Republicans asks the Ohio Supreme Court to block the abortion rights amendment from the November ballot.

The legal challenge, filed Friday, argues that abortion rights petitions failed to list the state laws that would be repealed or changed if the constitutional amendment took effect."

snip--"Attorney Curt Hartman filed the challenge on behalf of two Republicans: former state Rep. Tom Brinkman from Cincinnati and ex-legislative candidate Jenn Giroux. They asked the Ohio Supreme Court to invalidate the petitions and prohibit the measure from appearing on the Nov. 7 ballot."


snip--"This is the second lawsuit Hartman has filed to block the abortion rights amendment. In March, he argued that the Ohio Ballot Board, a five-member body tasked with approving ballot language, should have broken up the abortion rights measure into multiple amendments. The court ultimately ruled the ballot board had done its job."


more there

[irisblue]

1. Curt Hartman bio

I think this is the guy

https://finneylawfirm.com/team/curt-c-hartman/

https://www.rnla.org/487(republican national lawyer association)


https://votehartman.com/about/


https://ballotpedia.org/Curt_C._Hartman
"Hartman (Nonpartisan, Republican Party) ran for election for judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas General Division in Ohio. Hartman lost in the general election on November 3, 2020. He advanced from the Republican primary on April 28, 2020.

[yankee87]

2. Running scared

The Reich Wing is running scared here. I am holding out a small hope that Ohio can turn from being a red state hell hole.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Because

Conservatives learned from Kansas last year. Don’t let “the people” vote on anything relative to abortion. Use the judiciary to “win”. When that doesn’t work we’ll think of something else. Just keep democracy out of decision making in the land of the free posits the brilliant minds of conservative scholars.

[irisblue]

4. Bingo!