Mr. Nearman, a conservative Republican who has called for voters to prove their citizenship to cast a ballot, sued Gov. Kate Brown in October over coronavirus restrictions she had put in place. He was also among a dozen Oregon legislators who urged the state attorney general to join a Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in four states.
A woman who answered the phone at a number listed on Mr. Nearman’s website declined to comment.
“We can’t talk,” she said. “We have Covid.”
On Friday, Speaker Tina Kotek of the Oregon House of Representatives, a Democrat, renewed her call for Mr. Nearman to resign.
“Rep. Nearman put every person in the Capitol in serious danger and created fear among Capitol staff and legislators,” she said on Twitter.
Representative Christine Drazan, the Republican minority leader, said in a statement that legislators “are not above the law.”
“State legislators are the voices of their community,” she said. “The charges have been filed in Marion County Circuit Court and I trust the judicial process to be fair and objective.”
“I don’t condone violence, nor do I participate in it,” Mr. Nearman said in January, according to The Salem Statesman Journal. “I hope for due process, and not the mob justice to which Speaker Kotek is subjecting me.”
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