While voters focus on the presidential and U.S. Senate races, an epic battle will play out over which political party controls the Ohio Supreme Court.

It is unlikely that the court ends up playing a major role in the outcome, according to elections experts, but it is possible. Here’s why.

Following the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden, Donald Trump and his allies brought a storm of legal cases challenging the outcome. After losses in lower courts, some of these cases made their way to the U.