Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) will not seek reelection in 2022, the second Republican in the past two days to announce such an intention. In his April 6 announcement, Gibbs cited redistricting in his home state as propelling his decision not to run again. While Gibbs said he was “confident in the future of our nation,” he said that redistricting in his state had turned into a “circus.” In Ohio—which has in recent years become more and more reliably Republican, but still remains an important battleground state—Democrats and Republicans have squabbled relentlessly in and out of court over how to redraw Ohio’s congressional districts in alignment with the 2020 census. “These long, drawn-out processes, in which the Ohio Supreme Court can take weeks and months to deliberate while demanding responses and filings from litigants within days, is detrimental to the state and does not serve the people of Ohio,” Gibbs explained. …