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Two sitting Marion County commissioners and a judge face opposition in the November election.

A little-known state intelligence agency is the subject of a lawsuit filed by four Southern Oregon women — including former Phoenix City Councilor Sarah Westover — who peacefully protested the propose...

A Black female lawyer who was hired in 2019 to lead the state of Oregon’s civil rights agency has filed a $2.3 million lawsuit, claiming White subordinates dismissed her expertise and declined to follow her directives, according to a report.

/ Protesters gathered at Laurelhurst Park before marching to the Multnomah County Sheriffs Office in Southeast Portland on the third night of largely peaceful protests on May 31, 2020. Civil rights advocates reacted with elation, caution, to the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict. Law enforcement in Oregon issued statements calling the verdict a "measure of closure” for George Floyd’s family. Portland declared a state of emergency. Oregonians expressed a mix of relief and caution Tuesday, as jur...

Volunteer medic hit by tear gas canister sues federal agents ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A volunteer medic who was hit in the chest with a tear gas canister fired by a federal officer during racial injustice protests in Portland last summer sued U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials and agents Monday. Nate Cohen had just doused a tear gas canister that had landed next to journalists and legal observers on July 26 when he was hit directly a...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: As our country approaches the 63-year anniversary of NAACP v. Alabama — the 1958 U.S. Supreme Court case which unanimously blocked the state of Alabama’s egregious attempt to undermine the associational privacy rights enshrined in the First Amendment — we are deeply disappointed by the rushed effort underway in Congress to put such critical protections in its crosshairs. The context of the case underscores the danger of rolling back its precedent decades later through th...

Bynum blasts judge for disrespectful ruling about prison doctor February 03 2021 Lawmaker links substandard care ruling to structural racism; Chief Justice says courts are working on improvements. Rep. Janelle Bynum has written to the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court saying an Oregon judge should apologize for a ruling last week that criticized Oregons top prison doctor, who is Black. Chief Justice Martha Walters declined. But Bynum told the Portland Tribune she believes th...