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They say the commission must follow new reforms in order to avoid gerrymandering.

Meanwhile, his fellow Republicans are calling on another justice to step down from hearing the three redistricting cases.

Three lawsuits accuse the redistricting commissioners of approving unconstitutionally gerrymandered district maps.

The winner's map beat out nearly 40 other maps in the contest.

This makes the third legal challenge to maps approved on a party-line vote by the Ohio Redistricting Commission.

Groups are beginning to file legal challenges against the state legislative district maps.

Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) says the maps are the only ones introduced are were constitutional.

The maps have been blasted as gerrymandered toward Republicans, in violation of a 2015 constitutional amendment to change the map creation process.

State lawmakers have a constitutional deadline of Sept. 30 to approve a new congressional district map.

And the Democrats say Republicans on the Redistricting Commission ignored their constitutional duty to draw fair maps that Ohio voters demanded.