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Labrador Letter: What An Attorney General Does

Dear Friends, Most people don’t spend their days reading court filings or coalition letters from attorneys general—and I don’t blame them. But behind those filings is where we do some of our most important work defending Idaho’s values, protecting our freedoms, and standing up to overreach. So in this week’s Labrador Letter, I want to […]

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Attorney General Labrador Joins Letter Demanding the Nation’s Leading Companies to Abandon DEI Initiatives

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a letter with 14 other attorneys general urging the Business Roundtable, an association of the nation’s leading companies, to abandon their unlawful and misguided DEI initiative. Many of the Roundtable’s members have replaced free-market principles with costly and divisive DEI policies against the guidance of the Supreme Court.  The […]

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Attorney General Labrador Asks Boise Mayor to Comply with State Law

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador has sent the following letter to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean addressing the City’s ongoing violation of Idaho’s recently enacted House Bill 96 prohibiting the display of unauthorized flags by cities or other governmental entities on government property. The letter reads: Dear Mayor McLean: As you are aware, the Idaho Legislature […]

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Labrador Letter: The Illegal Immigration Problem

Dear Friends, Illegal immigration isn’t just a problem for South Texas, Arizona, or California. It’s a national crisis—and Idaho is feeling the impact. Trafficking routes stretch from both the southern and northern borders into every region of the country, and our communities are not immune.  Here in Idaho, we’ve seen the consequences of the last […]

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Attorney General Labrador Warns Phone Providers Regarding Unlawful Robocall Traffic

[BOISE] – Today, Attorney General Raúl Labrador and the 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force notified nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks. These warning letters include information about the task force’s investigation and analysis […]

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Labrador Tells Court that Prisoners Have No Constitutional Right to Sex-Change Surgeries

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador leads a 24-state amicus brief with Attorney General Todd Rokita of Indiana, defending an executive order by President Trump setting new guidelines affecting federal inmates claiming to experience gender dysphoria. Federal and state authorities are operating well within the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution when they deny inmates’ requests for […]

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Labrador Letter: Idaho’s secret weapon to detect hidden electronic storage devices

Image Above: Left to Right — Attorney General Raúl Labrador, K-9 Badger, ICAC Investigator Lauren Lane My personal philosophy is that the government, in general, should do a lot less. But whatever tasks remain, it should do very well. That’s certainly the case for our office’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit, where our team investigates […]

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Attorney General Labrador Joins Bipartisan Effort to Protect Veterans’ Education Benefits

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador today joined 51 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in support of two military veterans and their families who were unlawfully denied their full G.I. Bill education benefits by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this […]

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Labrador Letter: Court Upholds Bathroom Protections in Schools

Yesterday, in Roe v. Critchfield, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a district court decision in support of Idaho’s law that mandates separate-sex facilities in public schools, like bathrooms and other areas with expectations of privacy. Idaho’s common-sense law for now can be enforced as intended, protecting the safety, privacy and dignity of […]

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Idaho Falls Man Sentenced to Prison for Possessing, Distributing Child Pornography

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced that Christian Angel Tinoco, 32, was convicted of ten (10) counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child by Distributing Sexually Exploitative Material (Child Pornography) and ten (10) counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child by Possession of Sexually Exploitative Material. The Distribution of Sexually Exploitative Material is […]

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Labrador Letter: Idaho’s Defense of Life Act

Dear Friends, I’m pleased to share the Trump Department of Justice dismissed the previous administration’s attack on Idaho’s Defense of Life Act. I have been fighting against the Biden Administration’s twisted interpretation of federal statutes to keep individual states from enacting pro-life laws for the last two years, and this dismissal is a welcome relief. […]

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Labrador Letter: Finally, REAL School Choice!

Dear Friends, After several years and several attempts, Idaho finally has a law supporting real school choice. As with most all legislation, it’s not perfect, but it’s a good start for something that plays an outsized role in our state – meeting the educational needs of our kids. Education has never been effective as a […]

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