The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that 10 Republican State Senators who staged a legislative walk-out to block Democrats from passing radical abortion, transgender, and gun legislation are ineligible to run for office, in just the latest anti-democratic stunt pulled by Democrats.
10 Oregon State Senators were officially blocked from seeking re-election by the state’s Supreme Court on Thursday, a punishment for the 6-week walkout that they staged last year, denying the State Senate quorum and blocking Democrats from taking the already left-wing state completely off the rails.
The ruling comes in the form of an affirmation of a decision by Oregon’s Democrat Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, who says that the walk-out violated an Oregon law about legislative work absences. That law itself, however, only came about in 2022, for the express purpose of kicking unruly Republicans out of the legislature and stripping their voters of their voices, after Republican lawmakers had led previous similar walkout campaigns.
Contrast the happenings in Oregon with the celebrity treatment that Texas Democrats received in 2021, when they bolted the state entirely, not just the state capitol, to block Republicans from passing election integrity legislation.