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In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals agreed that the or-
der exceeded the presi-
dent’s authority.
“Absent
congressio-
nal authorization, the
administration may not
redistribute or withhold
properly appropriated
funds in order to effectu-
ate its own policy goals,”
Chad Readler had told
Orrick that the order ap-
plied to only three Justice
Department and Home-
land Security grants that
would affect less than $1
million for Santa Clara
and possibly no money
for San Francisco.
During
arguments
before the 9th Circuit
in April, Thomas asked
“
The administration may
not redistribute or with-
hold properly appropriated
funds in order to effectuate
its own policy goals
Chief
Judge
Sidney
Thomas wrote for the
majority.
But he also said there
wasn’t enough evidence
to support a nationwide
ban on the order and sent
the case back to the lower
court for more hearings
on that question.
An email to a spokes-
man for the U.S. Justice
Department was not im-
mediately returned.
U.S. District Judge Wil-
liam Orrick said in No-
vember that the order
threatened all federal
funding and that the
president did not have
the authority to attach
new conditions to spend-
ing that was approved by
Congress.
The ruling came in law-
suits filed by two Califor-
nia counties — San Fran-
cisco and Santa Clara.
The executive order
potentially jeopardized
hundreds of millions
of dollars in funding to
the two counties, Orrick
said, citing comments by
Trump and U.S. Attorney
General Jeff Sessions as
evidence of the order’s
scope.
The Trump adminis-
tration said the order
applied to a relatively
small pot of money that
already required compli-
ance with immigration
law.
Government attorney
OSU
what the court was sup-
posed to make of state-
ments by Trump and his
administration
about
wanting to withhold
money from sanctuary
cities.
Thomas also ques-
tioned whether the order
would be constitutional
if it applied to all types
of funding, as the low-
er-court judge found.
Readler said the order
was much narrower, and
the judges should not fo-
cus on comments by the
president or other ad-
ministration officials.
The executive order
is part of a push by the
Trump administration
to crack down on cities
and states that generally
don’t comply with U.S.
immigration authorities.
The
administration
has sued California over
three laws aimed at pro-
tecting immigrants in the
country illegally. It also
has moved to block a key
public safety grant from
going to sanctuary cities
and states.
The Trump adminis-
tration says sanctuary
jurisdictions allow dan-
gerous criminals back on
the street. San Francis-
co and other sanctuary
cities say turning local
police into immigration
officers erodes the trust
needed to get people to
report crime.
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• Avery Lodge was renamed Champ-
inefu Lodge (pronounced CHOM-
pin-A-foo). The university engaged
the assistance of Siletz tribal leaders
and Native American linguists to ar-
rive at this new name, which means
“at the place of the blue elderberry”
in the dialect of the Calapooia tribe.
Blue elderberries are specific to the
Willamette Valley, and the areas
around the Corvallis campus are
where Calapooia tribal members his-
torically would travel to harvest blue
elderberries. Previously, the build-
ing was named for Joseph C. Avery,
the founder of Corvallis and a legis-
lator in the provisional government
of Oregon and the Oregon Territory,
who historians say fought for Ore-
“
Free Beat Nation Drum Camp
The fourth annual Free Beat Nation Drum Camp finished with a bang this past Friday as students demonstrated new percussion skills
during a performance for family and friends. The drum camp, which is offered each summer at no cost to middle school students in
North and Northeast Portland, features a variety of rhythmic and percussive traditions and techniques.
This year’s camp introduced students to body percussion, led by Brian L. Davis of Portland’s Pink Martini; batucada samba, led by
samba master Eduardo “Dudu” Fuentes of Rio de Janiero; capoeira, a beautiful martial art from Brazil, led by Pyata Penedo of Ctc
Capoeiragem Portland; Latin percussion led by Gerardo Calderon of Grupo Condor; and Ghanaian drumming on traditional instruments,
led by Mark Powers of Floater. In addition, each day music director Steven Schob helped the students learn how to compose their own
unique rhythms and lead fellow students in performing them.
For information about next year’s drum camp, contact founder and administrator Tadimdia Bridges at tadimdia@derekriethfoundation.
org. Music director Steven Schob may be reached at steven.c.schob@gmail.com
Tax
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Association, which includes big
grocery chains as well as local in-
dependent stores. Some nonprof-
its — including the Sunshine Di-
vision, the charitable arm of the
Portland Police Bureau — have
endorsed the measure, although
larger organizations like the Or-
egon Food Bank have not.
Opponents — notably the union-
backed group Our Oregon — say
the bill could have unintended
consequences. Our Oregon did
not respond to a request for com-
ment from The Skanner, but told
Oregon Public Broadcasting in
June that the measure could af-
fect other businesses, including
restaurants and movie theaters.
The measure also includes lan-
guage preventing a corporate
minimum tax, and grocers had a
major hand in defeating Measure
97, a 2016 measure that would
have established a 2.5 percent tax
on gross sales exceeding $25 mil-
lion dollars.
IP 37 would also head off a rel-
atively new and somewhat con-
tentious tax some jurisdictions
The university
engaged the as-
sistance of Siletz
tribal leaders and
Native American
linguists to arrive
at this new name,
which means ‘at the
place of the blue
elderberry’
gon to become a slave state.
• Benton Hall will become Community
Hall. “This name reflects the contri-
butions of local residents in estab-
around the country are trying
and mulling, usually as a way to
increase public health coffers: a
tax on soda sales. The measure
does apply to sugary beverages
like sodas – less because cam-
“
Our goal is not
to prevent soda
taxes. Our goal
is to prevent
taxes on food
paign backers oppose soda taxes
in principle than because they
consider soda taxes a slippery
slope. (IP 37 does not apply to al-
cohol, tobacco and marijuana, all
of which are taxed already and
provide major sources of revenue
for the state.)
“Our goal is not to prevent soda
taxes. Our goal is to prevent taxes
on food,” said campaign spokes-
person Dan Floyd.
Oregon is one of just five states
without a general sales tax, and
the concept is not politically pop-
lishing the university, and helping it
reach its 150th anniversary and excel
as Oregon’s statewide university,”
says a press release from the school.
The university says in the fall it will
develop public displays to share the
histories of each building, and will pro-
vide information at Gill Coliseum and
Arnold Dining Center, whose names
also came under recent review. Gill
Coliseum is named for men’s basketball
coach Amory “Slats” Gill, who is said to
have resisted racial integration on the
team; Benjamin Lee Arnold, the name-
sake for Arnold Dining Center, was the
university’s second president, and last
fall the university said it was reviewing
claims that Arnold served in the Con-
federate Army.
ular with Oregon voters or elect-
ed officials on either side of the
aisle: Democrats consider taxes
on food regressive and Republi-
cans say it’s bad for business.
Last fall voters in St. Helens de-
feated a soda tax, and this spring
voters in Ontario rejected a sales
tax. And while jurisdictions like
Ashland have been able to tax
restaurant meals, statewide, vot-
ers have voted down proposed
sales taxes no fewer than nine
times in 90 years.
That raises the question: why
amend the constitution to stop a
form of taxation that’s been polit-
ical poison for most of a century?
Floyd said every time small
jurisdictions float sales taxes,
grocers fight and win, but those
fights cost money and drive up
the cost of food.
He also said the arguments
about unintended consequences
aren’t convincing, and that op-
ponents are trying to muddy the
waters.
“We think [the measure text] is
pretty darn narrow,” Floyd said.
PHOTO COURTESY OF OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Sanctuary
PHOTO BY JERRY FOSTER
News
Hattie Redmond, who fought for women’s suffrage
in Oregon, is the namesake for the newly-renamed
Hattie Redmond Women and Gender Center at
Oregon State.
