The US Supreme Court issued an emergency order Tuesday staying a district court order granting preliminary injunctions in an Oregon redistricting ballot measure. The ballot measure could drastically alter how Oregon draws its legislative and congressional districts.
The “People Not Politicians” ballot campaign sought to place an initiative on voters’ ballots that would place a non-partisan commission in charge of legislative and congressional redistricting. In July ballot campaign leaders argued that they faced an undue burden because of the current pandemic to collect enough signatures by the July deadline to get the measure on the November ballot.
