Days after finding that Ohio's newly redrawn maps for both the state House and state Senate were unconstitutional, Ohio's Supreme Court has now issued a similar ruling tossing out the state's Congressional map. 

In a majority opinion issued Friday, the court found that the Republican-drawn map gave the GOP an unfair advantage, in opposition to the Ohio Constitution. 

Ohio voters previously approved an amendment to the state's constitution that prohibited the practice of partisan gerrymandering, where maps are drawn in such a way that one party is all but assured to win any election. 

"When the dealer stacks the deck in advance, the house usually wins. That perhaps explains how a party that generally musters no more than 55 percent of the statewide popular vote is positioned to reliably win anywhere from 75 percent to 80 percent of the seats in the Ohio congressional delegation. By any rational measure, that skewed result just does not add up," the justices wrote in the 4-3 decision. 

The decision is harshly critical of the Ohio General Assembly's plan,  calling it "infused with undue partisan bias" and "incomprehensibly more extremely biased than the 2011 plan that it replaced." 

In a dissenting opinion, Justices Kennedy, Fischer and DeWine, whose father, Governor Mike DeWine, was a part of the commission that drew the now-defunct maps, wrote that the decision amounts to creating new policy, not interpreting the law. 

"While none of us question that the majority clearly believes that what it is crafting constitutes good policy, we have grave concerns about the majority's untethered-by-law eagerness to wrest from the political branches of our government the authority that rightly belongs to them," the dissent reads. 

Had the new maps been allowed to remain, the 6th district, which is currently represented by Bill Johnson, would have grown significantly north, encompassing the entire Mahoning Valley.