The nastiest of three Supreme Court races is between two current colleagues who sit next to eachother on the bench.
From left: Justice Joe Deters, a Republican, is challenging Justice Melody Stewart, a Democrat, on the Ohio Supreme Court in 2024.COLUMBUS, Ohio – Perhaps the nastiest of three Ohio Supreme Court races this year is between two current justices who sit next to each another.– a longtime Republican prosecutor from Cincinnati – to fill the remaining term of an open seat on the Supreme Court.
Stewart is the fourth Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court and the first Black woman to win election for the seat. The FOP endorsed her in her first race in 2018. And as Stewart noted, the union didn’t endorse Judge Terri Jamison, a Black appellate judge, who ran in 2022. Mike Weinman, government affairs director for the FOP, said Deters’ comment made him feel surer about the endorsement of Stewart.
“Being on the court with him is a constant reminder of how hard some of us have to work, and others don’t, to be there,” she said. “It’s such a complex issue that I don’t think the laws themselves could ever anticipate what happens,” she said. “Those seem to me to be decisions that are better left to a woman, her family, their health care professionals, their religious beliefs.”
The break in tenure came after he was twice elected as state treasurer in 1998 and 2002. While there, his chief of staff, Matt Borges, and outside lobbyist Eric Sagun,to misdemeanor ethics offenses. Borges was accused of giving 10 brokers who had contributed to Deters’ campaign fund an advantage in getting contracts with the treasurer’s office, the Toledo Blade reported at the time.
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