[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a coalition of 23 other states filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris Administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers in Nebraska v. EPA. This coalition has joined the suit alongside Nebraska as petitioners to challenge […]
Dear Friends, The Bill of Rights is a shield to guard the people – individuals – against the power, overreach, and abuse of government itself. The freedom of speech, assembly and religion, the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure, and […]
Dear Friends, For the many responsibilities of my office, there are few that are so personal, so morally imperative, as the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (“ICAC”) Unit of our Criminal Law Division. The ICAC Unit identifies, investigates, arrests, and prosecutes those individuals who use the internet to exploit and abuse children in Idaho. These […]
Dear Friends, Last week, I led 28 other states in an amicus brief in support of a writ of certiorari urging SCOTUS to directly take up Maryland’s gun ban law. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, ignoring major Supreme Court precedent, upheld Maryland’s unconstitutional law by holding that the most popular rifle in America is […]
On Tuesday I sent a letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), demanding their cooperation with an investigation into the advice they continue to offer doctors and patients across the country relating the dangers of puberty blocking hormones and transgender surgeries. Twenty other attorneys general joined me in this effort, as the AAP has […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador successfully defended Idaho’s voter identification statutes in federal court today, overcoming a constitutional challenge from March for Our Lives Idaho and the Idaho Alliance for Retired Americans. Both groups sued the Idaho Secretary of State alleging statutes, which list Idaho driver’s licenses, Idaho identification cards, tribal identification, and federal […]
Dear Friends, This week we delivered another victory in protecting Idaho’s election security. The U.S. District Court upheld Idaho’s statutes that eliminated student IDs as an acceptable form of identification when it came to registering to vote and voting itself. As everyone knows, student IDs lack any kind of uniformity and security measures, as well […]
Dear Friends, Over the last week, I’ve filed two separate suits in strategic opposition to the Lava Ridge wind turbine project proposed for the Magic Valley on Bureau of Land Management property. The project itself is promoted by Magic Valley Energy, LLC, an East Coast energy consortium which plans to ship most of the power […]
[BOISE] – Today, the State of Idaho Medal of Honor Commission awarded the 2024 Medal of Honor to Officer Chris Dance of the City of Boise Police Department in recognition of his heroic acts during the 2021 shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall, during which two people lost their lives and several others were […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador secured a significant victory for Idaho water rights against federal claims of unconstitutionality in the United States v. Idaho. U.S. District Court Judge David Nye rejected the Department of Justice’s attempt to block Idaho ranchers from seeking forfeiture of stockwater rights on public lands that the United States is […]
Dear Friends, I know it will come as no surprise to the readers of the Labrador Letter that I’m not particularly fond of the media. Some reporters in Idaho try to be fair but most newspaper editorial boards and columnists are nothing short of left wing idealogues. They persistently show their editorial bias in the […]
[BOISE] – Today, the Idaho Supreme Court denied John Wurdemann access to a compensation fund for defendants who are wrongfully convicted and are subsequently able to demonstrate their innocence. This fund has been used previously for defendants who were exonerated by DNA evidence. John Wurdemann was convicted for a June 2000 crime when he and […]