The Oregon attorney general who sued several federal agencies in 2020 over the forced detention of Portland residents protesting police brutality during the height of the BLM movement has decided to step down at the end of his term.
Ellen Rosenblum, a Democrat and the state’s first female attorney general, said Tuesday afternoon that she would not seek a fourth term in the position she has held since June 2012.
“I want to let you know that I will not be seeking a fourth term as Oregon Attorney General in 2024,” he said said in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter. “I love being your AG, and I have given everything to this important position since June 29, 2012, when I was sworn in.”
The job doesn’t come with term limits but Rosenblum, 72, said he felt it was time he imposed his own after winning elections for the position in 2012, 2016 and 2020, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reported.
“Every state agency, no matter how well run, can benefit from new leadership, new energy and new initiatives,” he said, according to local newspapers. “By making this announcement more than a full year before the next general election — and eight months before the primary — I expect there will be a good candidate to succeed me as Oregon’s Attorney General.”
Rosenblum, 72, said he felt it was time for him to step down to allow Oregon to choose a new attorney general after winning elections for the post in 2012, 2016 and 2020.AP
Rosenblum, a former federal prosecutor and appeals judge, gained national attention during the Trump administration when he joined other attorneys general to oppose several mandates passed by the then-president — including his refugee ban.
He made headlines across US news outlets again in 2020 when he filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against more than 100 federal agents deployed by then-President Trump to Portland after protests erupted over the police killing of George Floyd.
Rosenblum argued that agents from the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marshals Service, US Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Protective Service used excessive and unreasonable force to detain and arrest residents without probable cause.
Rosenblum filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against federal agents deployed to Portland during the height of BLM protests in the summer of 2020. REUTERS
The attorney general said that federal agents used excessive force to arrest and detain protesters without cause. Reuters
“The federal administration has singled out Portland to use their scare tactics to prevent our residents from protesting police brutality and from supporting the Black Lives Matter movement,” Rosenblum said in announcing the suit. “Every American should be repulsed when they see this happening. If this can happen here in Portland, it can happen anywhere.”
His term as Oregon’s top prosecutor ends in January 2025.
“I deeply appreciate the faith the people of Oregon placed in me eleven years ago,” Rosenblum said. “At the same time, jobs like these belong to Oregonians — not to any individual.”
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