Court Disqualifies Ten of Oregon’s Republican State Senators from Reelection

I wrote back in November about a legal effort to disqualify ten of the twelve Republicans in the Oregon state senate from running for reelection for using a tactic popular among Democrats to bring legislative majorities to a halt:

Well, it worked. Yesterday, the all-Democrat-appointed Oregon supreme court unanimously upheld the Oregon secretary of state’s ruling that the ten — the Oregon Ten, if you will — are barred from seeking reelection in 2024. In its legal analysis, the court concluded that any ambiguity in the text of the amendment as to when it applies was resolved by the voter pamphlet distributed before the referendum. There is, of course, rich irony in a rule pushed by public-employee unions that imposes consequences for walking off the job.

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I wrote back in November about a legal effort to disqualify ten of the twelve Republicans in the Oregon state senate from running for reelection for using a tactic popular among Democrats to bring legislative majorities to a halt:

Well, it worked. Yesterday, the all-Democrat-appointed Oregon supreme court unanimously upheld the Oregon secretary of state’s ruling that the ten — the Oregon Ten, if you will — are barred from seeking reelection in 2024. In its legal analysis, the court concluded that any ambiguity in the text of the amendment as to when it applies was resolved by the voter pamphlet distributed before the referendum. There is, of course, rich irony in a rule pushed by public-employee unions that imposes consequences for walking off the job.