{"id":608774,"date":"2024-02-01T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=608774"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:43:00","slug":"oregon-high-court-says-10-gop-state-senators-who-staged-long-walkout-cant-run-for-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=608774","title":{"rendered":"Oregon high court says 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can\u2019t run for reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection.<\/h4>\n<p>The decision upholds the secretary of state\u2019s decision to disqualify the senators from the ballot under a voter-approved measure aimed at stopping such boycotts. Measure 113, passed by voters in 2022, amended the state constitution to bar lawmakers from reelection if they have more than 10 unexcused absences.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s boycott lasted six weeks \u2014 the longest in state history \u2014 and paralyzed the legislative session, stalling hundreds of bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keloland.com\/news\/national-world-news\/ap-oregon-high-court-says-10-gop-state-senators-who-staged-long-walkout-cant-run-for-reelection\/\">https:\/\/www.keloland.com\/news\/national-world-news\/ap-oregon-high-court-says-10-gop-state-senators-who-staged-long-walkout-cant-run-for-reelection\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hard to imagine that this is constitutionally legal&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=608774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608775,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608774\/revisions\/608775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}