Catching Our Eye News Roundup, April 29, 2026
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Catching Our Eye
• Seeking a Trump pardon for the largest bribery scandal in Ohio historical past. The Columbus Dispatch’s Jessie Balmert reviews, “Larry Householder to seek Trump pardon after loss in Supreme Court.”
The US Supreme Court will not overturn the bribery conviction of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, ending a six-year authorized saga that despatched the previous prime Republican chief to jail for 20 years…
After the authorized loss, Householder’s legal professional Scott Pullins stated Householder would search a pardon from President Donald Trump.
• Trump Homeland Security division targets Ohio voters. Reuters reviews, “How Trump is moving to control US elections, one state at a time.”
Reuters uncovered a broader‑than‑beforehand recognized Trump administration effort to realize federal management over elections, traditionally run domestically, in at the least eight states – utilizing investigations, raids and lawsuits for entry to voting techniques and voter ID…
In Ohio, federal investigators have collected voter information in at the least six counties, two of them solidly Democratic and the others politically aggressive, citing unspecified investigations. The scope of these probes hasn’t been beforehand reported.
• Property taxes. The Statehouse News Bureau’s Karen Kasler reviews, “Group pushing amendment to abolish property tax in Ohio likely won’t make ballot.”
The group that wishes Ohio voters to abolish property taxes nearly definitely will not make the autumn poll, although the deadline to submit signatures is greater than two months away.
Members of the Committee to Abolish Property Taxes launched their signature whole in a livestreamed occasion, after months of refusing requests to take action from journalists and group volunteers. The group, additionally referred to as Ax Ohio Tax, wants a minimal of 413,487 legitimate signatures from 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties by July 1 to make the November poll. That’s 10% of the overall ballots solid for governor within the final election for that workplace, in 2022.
• Ohio Sec. of State race. Cleveland.com’s Laura Hancock reviews, “Ohio secretary of state candidates divided over hand-marked ballots, redistricting.”
In the race for Ohio secretary of state are Republicans who imagine it is too straightforward to cheat in voting and Democrats who imagine latest state legal guidelines making it more durable to vote have crossed into suppression.
Details about what they’d do, nonetheless, differ.
• Haitians. The Dayton Daily News’ Cornelius Frolik reviews, “Haiti TPS: Supreme Court to hear in-person argument this week in high stakes cases.”
Legal protections for greater than 330,000 Haitian nationals and different foreign-born individuals residing within the United States dangle within the stability because the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week in litigation concerning the federal authorities’s makes an attempt to cancel short-term protected standing for Haiti and Syria.
Justices with the best courtroom within the land are anticipated to spend an hour or longer on Wednesday, April 29, listening to and asking questions from attorneys for the Trump administration and TPS holders, who dispute whether or not the previous secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security adopted the legislation and the right procedures when she tried to terminate protected standing for the overseas nations.
