Ohio’s Republican supreme court candidates make a bid to unseat 6-1 court’s only Democratic justice

By: Susan Tebben

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: May 4, 2026

Words: 1,881

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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The candidates running on the Republican ticket to unseat the 6-1 Ohio Supreme Court’s one Democratic justice came to the law through different means, but they all claim that partisan politics won’t be a part of being a supreme court justice.

Races for the state’s top judicial positions were made explicitly partisan when Republican state lawmakers added party labels to the races starting in 2022, joining seven other states in the U.S.

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