A Marion County Circuit Court judge said he will rule quickly on a case brought against the Oregon Secretary of State by GOP lawmakers and voters over the timing of a gas tax referendum.
Senior Judge David Leith on Tuesday heard roughly an hour-and-a-half of arguments from a lawyer for the plaintiffs and a lawyer for Secretary of State Tobias Read at the Marion County Courthouse in Salem.
Leith said he would issue a judgement by Wednesday, and a longer explanation of his opinion by Friday, on whether a recently passed law that moves the referendum vote on new gas taxes and road fees from the November general election to the May primary violated the Oregon Constitution, as the plaintiffs allege…