Oregon Governor Kate Brown reacts during a press conference in Roseburg, Oregon on October 2, 2015. As police and mourners groped for answers in the latest carnage to hit gun-crazed America, a portrait started to emerge Friday of the Oregon community college shooter: an angry recluse who hated religion. The rampage Thursday by a heavily armed young man identified as Chris Harper Mercer, 26, left 10 dead and shattered a close-knit rural community in the south of the state. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by  Tom Ozimek 

The Epoch Times

September 4, 2021

A coalition of Oregon police officers and firefighters have sued Gov. Kate Brown over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for state employees.

The plaintiffs—including the Oregon Fraternal Order of Police and the Kingsley Firefighters Association—argued in a lawsuit filed Friday in a Jefferson County court (pdf) that Brown’s executive order violates a number of laws and want it blocked.

“Plaintiffs seek an order declaring EO No. 21-29 is unenforceable because it conflicts with Oregon statutes, would result in a common law wrongful discharge of the Plaintiffs, conflicts with the Oregon Constitution’s guarantee of free expression, and conflicts with the United States Constitution guarantee of equal protection, free exercise, and due process,” the complaint states.

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