by Julia Shumway, Oregon Capital Chronicle
April 4, 2025
Oregon, the first state in the nation to adopt mail voting and automatic voter registration, is suing President Donald Trump over a sweeping executive order meant to reshape elections across the country.
The lawsuit, filed by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown in federal district court in Washington on Friday, is one of three federal lawsuits Rayfield joined on Friday and one of 12 he has filed or joined since he took office on Dec. 31. His predecessor during Trump’s first term, former Democratic Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, had only filed one lawsuit by this point in Trump’s first term, Rayfield noted.
“The common theme that you have heard for the first 100 days that I’ve been in office, and that you’ll hear today, is that the president has a lot of powers in the world, but the president does not have the power to ignore the United States Constitution, nor does the president have the ability to ignore federal law,” Rayfield told reporters during a virtual press conference Friday morning.
