OHIO’S BAN ON FOREIGN NATIONALS’ contributions to ballot question campaigns can be enforced while a challenge is pending, a split federal appellate court ruled Tuesday, throwing out a lower court’s injunction in an unsigned opinion.
- The state in 2024 made it a criminal offense for foreign nationals to donate to campaigns advocating for or against questions put in front of voters, including those to change state law or the constitution. The Ohio law was enacted after Republicans said there was undue foreign influence on a ballot measure voters overwhelmingly approved in 2023 to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution. ...