Last Democrat on Ohio Supreme Court Adjusts to Going It Alone

Ten years of the Trump era has solidified the downfall of Ohio Democrats. After another GOP romp, there’s just one statewide elected Democrat left: Justice Jennifer Brunner, who saw the other two members of the court from her party lose in November.

But Brunner’s newfound isolation—and chances of being on the winning side in split decisions having dwindled—doesn’t alter her resolve to rule in ways she deems proper, she said. And she won’t tamp down her occasionally fiery dissents or her questioning during oral arguments.

“My philosophy doesn’t change,” she said in a Jan. 23 interview in her Columbus chambers, ...