Let’s see. Oregon would lose an electoral vote or 2. I don’t think it’s doable. What does the constitution say?
I believe if both states are agreed it can be done.
There’s no reasonable reason for Oregon to hold these counties hostage. Better to part amicably than wait for things to get ugly.
people and places can be good...can be socialized....its possible....
its time to move away from the ugly culture that is the leftist slime...
"The Constitution grants general state-creation powers to Congress in Article IV, Section 3, under the Admissions Clause, which reads: “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”
Any such change in the state’s boundaries would require ratification by the Oregon Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats.
Article IV, Section 3: "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."
Until Reynolds, states often apportioned senatorial districts by counties. After Reynolds, One-Man-One-Vote became the bumper sticker standard for all state legislative houses. This little known decision is at least partly, if not largely, responsible for the growing fiscal emergencies in many states. Reynolds v. Sims is the judicially imposed, unconstitutional state level equivalent of the 17th Amendment, which democratized the US Senate.
Gundog answered your objection well—almost no one lives in the eastern half of the 2nd and the continued Californicationing of Oregon would allow the state to retain the new 6th district in 2030.
Math doesn’t seem to be a strong point of anyone now days. Given that five counties have voted for something that two others already had voted for, I would say seven have voted this way. Oregon only has 36 counties, but most of the population is located in five (three of which involve Portland).
What does the constitution say?
But that was a bit of a special case since the Legislature meeting in what is now WVA was recognized as the only legitimate legislature of VA—the rest of VA’s legislature having renounced membership in the Union.
Seriously doubt that Oregon’s legislature would agree to losing the eastern part of the state to Idaho.
Texas, according to the Treaty of Annexation can split into as many as five states without Congressional approval, but some say that that right/power ended when Texas was required to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.