Redistricting Suit Shelved

A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit filed by the state of Ohio that tried to get the U.S. Census Bureau to provide data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts ahead of its planned release. Ohio filed its lawsuit last month…after the Census Bureau said the redistricting data wouldn’t be available until September…months after the deadlines for many states. Posing the first challenge to the bureau’s revised deadline on redistricting data, the lawsuit claimed the delay will undermine Ohio’s process of redrawing districts. Alabama also has filed a lawsuit over the changed deadline.