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Law’s Jonathan L. Entin weighs in on calls for Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s resignation

Does Ohio House Speaker have to resign after arrest? Ohio law doesn’t say so

WEWSJonathan L. Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, noted that while there have been calls for Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s resignation following his arrest, “nothing in Ohio law requires an elected official to resign after being arrested.” Still, Entin said an arrest puts an elected official in an awkward political position, “so even if the law doesn’t formally require Householder or somebody else who’s been arrested to resign, there might be very powerful political pressure for him to do that.”