Oregon's top court asked to decide if GOP senators who boycotted Legislature can be reelected

FILE - A woman enters the Oregon Department of Justice building in Salem, Ore., May 28, 2020. According to a ballot measure passed by Oregon voters, state senators who accumulated 10 or more unexcused absences at the Legislature during a record-setting Republican walkout are supposed to be disqualified from running for re-election, but several filed suit in the Oregon Court of Appeals, challenging the measure. On Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, the appeals court formally asked the state Supreme Court to handle the case. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File) The Oregon Court...