One reader writes in to comment that Ohio voters hvae been fed up with activism by the judiciary for some time:
One thing missing from the discussion on Dewine is that Ohio voters in 2004 voted overwhelmingly against Judicial Activism. It looks like the anger lingers…
Here’s an abstract of an Editorial from the Columbus Dispatch on 11/5/2004
(the rest can be purchased here 🙂
“The voters’ choice on Tuesday of Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, Justice
Terrence O’Donnell and Judge Judith Ann Lanzinger for the Ohio Supreme Court was a sound rejection of the judicial activism that hurt this state for far too
long.”