Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said he was "deeply concerned" by the pause and "will explore any and all legal actions to challenge this harmful order from President Trump."
Oregon and 22 other states are suing the Trump administration after it ordered an abrupt freeze to many federal payments, leaving state agencies unable to access reimbursements for Medicaid and child care programs and sending state officials scrambling to determine the total effect.
As the state observed Data Privacy Day on Tuesday, the Oregon Department of Justice rolled out a new toolkit with additional handouts and social media content to help Oregonians protect their online information.
Oregon leaders were scrambling Tuesday morning after an announcement from the Trump administration that it was at least temporarily freezing many federal funds. State budgets rely heavily on federal funding: In Oregon,
OPB's Dave Miller spoke with Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield about the new administration’s crackdown on immigration, and what impacts the policies could have on the state.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice sent federal prosecutors a memo to investigate state and local officials who interfere with President Trump’s new immigration laws.
The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, saying they could face criminal charges, in an apparent warning to the dozens of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across America.
A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour’s ruling in a case brought by Washington,
Since Donald Trump's election, top Democrats in Oregon have said they’re trying to identify specific threats and not waste time.
The lawsuit filed in Seattle has been progressing the fastest of the five cases brought over the executive order.
Gov. Tina Kotek urged Oregonians to keep using services such as Medicaid and Head Start as usual, and not delay care.
The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.