States trying partisan redistricting can learn from Oregon’s 2021 blunder

States trying partisan redistricting can learn from Oregon’s 2021 blunder

U.S. Labor Secretary Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, center, stands behind President Donald Trump as he signs executive orders. Oregon legislative Democrats in 2021 sought to draw congressional maps that would guarantee five of the state's six U.S. representatives were Democrats, but instead the maps' first outing resulted in Chavez-DeRemer winning one spot and catapulted the former Happy Valley mayor into the Trump administration. (Chip Somodevilla/…