Pivotal Ohio Supreme Court election highlights importance of down-ballot races
John Yang is the anchor of PBS News Weekend and a correspondent for the PBS News Hour. He covered the first year of the Trump administration and is currently reporting on major national issues from Washington, DC, and across the country.
Ohio Supreme Court upholds conviction in Colerain gender-reveal party mass shooting
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence for one of two accused gang members who sprayed bullets into a Colerain Township house in 2017, killing a woman and wounding eight others. The unanimous opinion was released Friday. James Echols, 29, was convicted in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court of nearly...
In Ohio Supreme Court races, Democrats hold edge in campaign cash over GOP
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Democratic candidates running for the Ohio Supreme Court have all raised more than their Republican challengers this past quarter in the runup to an election where three of seven seats are up for grabs. In two of the three races, the Democratic candidates spent more than...
County judge strikes down Ohio abortion ban, citing voter-approved reproductive rights amendment
The most far-reaching of Ohio’s laws restricting abortion was struck down on Thursday by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive rights renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional.Enforcement of the 2019 law banning most abortions once cardiac activity is detected — as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant — had been paused pending the challenge before Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins.Jenkins said that when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned power over the abortion issue to the states, “Ohio’s Attorney General evidently...