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Labrador Letter: Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Is Officially Defeated

Dear Friends, Over the past few years, Idaho has been at the center of the national fight to protect women and girls in sports, in bathrooms, and in private spaces at school. You may be following our case protecting girls’ sports, Little v. Hecox,where we are waiting on the Supreme Court to release its opinion any […]

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Labrador Letter: Celebrating Acts of Service

Dear Friends, This week I joined State Treasurer Julie Ellsworth, families, and students at Eagle Elementary School to mark a milestone. Idahoans completed 250,000 acts of service ahead of America’s 250th birthday on July 4th. That number started as a goal. At the beginning of 2026, the America250 in Idaho Ambassadors and the State Service […]

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Labrador Letter: Department of Labor Must End H-1B Abuse to Protect American Workers

Dear Friends, When Congress created the H-1B visa program, the purpose was to allow American employers to hire skilled foreign workers when they genuinely couldn’t find qualified Americans to fill specialized jobs. A software engineer with a rare skill set, a researcher with expertise unavailable in the domestic labor market. That was the deal. Major […]

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AG Labrador Joins White House Fraud Task Force Roundtable with Vice President Vance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2026CONTACT: damon.sidur@ag.idaho.gov BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined Vice President JD Vance, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and White House Fraud Task Force Executive Director Scott Brady at the White House for a fraud enforcement roundtable with attorneys general from across the country. […]

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Labrador Letter: Medicaid Fraud Hurts Everyone. Here’s What I’m Doing About It.

Dear Friends, Over the past year, Americans have gotten a clearer picture of how their government spends their money. DOGE brought long overdue attention to waste and mismanagement, and this past March President Trump signed an executive order establishing the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. The results have come quickly: 8,000 active fraud cases at […]

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AG Labrador Defends Idaho School Bathroom Privacy Law as Challengers Drop Lawsuit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2026CONTACT: damon.sidur@ag.idaho.gov BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today that the legal challenge to Idaho’s school privacy law has come to an end after the plaintiffs agreed to voluntarily dismiss both their district court case and their Ninth Circuit appeal. The case, Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield, targeted Idaho’s […]

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AG Labrador Meets with U.S. Attorney General, FBI Director at White House for National Police Week

BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to participate in a National Police Week roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building alongside Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. The roundtable brought together attorneys general and law enforcement leaders from across the country to discuss public safety […]

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Labrador Letter: Cracking Down on Illegal HOA Fees

Dear Friends, My office recently reached settlements with two Idaho homeowners’ associations and an HOA management company after receiving complaints that homeowners were charged transfer fees that were never disclosed in their governing documents, in violation of the Idaho Homeowners Association Act and the Idaho Consumer Protection Act. Idaho law requires HOAs to explicitly disclose […]

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AG Labrador Cracks Down on HOAs Charging Illegal Fees to Idaho Homeowners

BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced court settlements today with two Idaho homeowners’ associations and an HOA management company after receiving complaints that homeowners were charged transfer fees that were never disclosed in their governing documents, in contravention of the Idaho Homeowners Association Act and the Idaho Consumer Protection Act. Idaho law requires HOAs […]

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Labrador Letter: Challenging Wall Street’s Secret Climate Agenda Driving Up Your Energy Costs

Dear Friends, Three private companies control roughly 95 percent of the global credit rating market. Their job is to assess how financially healthy a company is and assign it a rating. Investors, pension funds, businesses, and governments rely on those ratings to decide where to put their money, trusting that the analysis behind them is […]

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AG Labrador Demands Answers from Credit Agencies Accused of Using ESG Policies to Drive Up Energy Costs

BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a 23-state coalition questioning the lawfulness of ESG policies at the country’s three largest credit ratings agencies. Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, and S&P Global Ratings pledged to United Nations-backed climate groups that they would incorporate ESG goals into their credit ratings, then downgraded American energy companies accordingly. Those downgrades increase […]

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Labrador Letter: Legislative Session Wrap Up

Dear Friends, A few weeks ago, the 2026 legislative session wrapped up, and I want to share some of what my office accomplished alongside the Legislature. My role as Attorney General is not to make policy. That belongs to your elected representatives. But when legislators have questions about their legislation, how it might affect my […]

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