A recap of legislative redistricting efforts in Oregon April 15 2021
More often than not, secretary of state has stepped in when lawmakers have failed in past 50 years.
When the 2011 Legislature completed a legislative redistricting plan and no one challenged it in the Oregon Supreme Court it was the first time in a century that lawmakers completed that task successfully.
Modern redistricting goes back half a century, after U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s required states to draw congressional and legislative districts that are equal in population. For state legislative districts, the legal standard is substantial equality, which is less strict than what courts require for congressional districts. (Under the current plan, Senate and House districts vary no more than 3 percentage points from the average.)
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March 02 2021
Sen. Bob Packwood says Republicans here once bucked the national party s conservative tilt. Now they ve embraced it.
There s a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about the civil war within the Republican Party.
The nation s actual party Civil War divided the country between northern liberal Republicans and southern conservative Democrats and profoundly impacted Oregon s political landscape. As more northerners than southerners emigrated here, Oregon tilted Republican. And liberal.
In 1950, for example, the Portland City Council most of its members being Republican passed the most wide-reaching civil rights legislation in the country. Even today, it would be regarded as a vanguard. However, opponents gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot.
March 02 2021
Sen. Bob Packwood says Republicans here once bucked the national party s conservative tilt. Now they ve embraced it.
There s a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about the civil war within the Republican Party.
The nation s actual party Civil War divided the country between northern liberal Republicans and southern conservative Democrats and profoundly impacted Oregon s political landscape. As more northerners than southerners emigrated here, Oregon tilted Republican. And liberal.
In 1950, for example, the Portland City Council most of its members being Republican passed the most wide-reaching civil rights legislation in the country. Even today, it would be regarded as a vanguard. However, opponents gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot.