A politically connected Cleveland leader served as the foreperson for a grand jury that returned a new criminal indictment Monday against ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, a development experts said raises questions about the impartiality of the process and that could pose future legal issues for Attorney General Dave Yost’s case.
- Andrew Tobias writes that Dave Wondolowski, executive president of the Cleveland Building Trades and Construction Council, signed the indictment, filed Monday in Cuyahoga County.
While grand jury processes are veiled in a thick layer of secrecy, legal experts said that Householder’s lawyers could question Wondolowski’s impartiality, given his close involvement with politics, which has included giving tens of thousands in campaign contributions and public lobbying for House Bill 6, the nuclear bailout law at the center of the federal corruption case against Householder
The ACLU sued the state on behalf of two transgender 12-year-old girls Tuesday, hoping to convince the court to toss out House Bill 68, which is going into effect next month and would prohibit gender-affirming care for minors.
The lawsuit said the medical decisions need to be made by families and doctors, and the bill violates Ohio’s constitution, Laura Hancock reports.
Constitutional Rights” campaign is trying to gather the hundreds of thousands of voter signatures it needs to collect before July 3 to get their proposed state constitutional amendment on the November ballot. But first, they need Yost to sign off on a written summary that would appear on the petitions the group must circulate telling voters what the proposal would do.
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