[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 24 states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stay a decision enjoining enforcement of Arizona’s law, forcing Arizona to allow persons to register to vote in federal races without having to prove […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested fifty-six-year-old (56) Daniel DeKruyf in Twin Falls County on Thursday, August 15th, 2024, for 20 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a child. Agencies that assisted the ICAC Task Force were Rupert Police Department, Twin Falls County […]
Dear Friends, Summer vacation is drawing to a close. Next week will see most of our kids back to school. Parents will begin the rituals of packing lunches, double-checking schedules, waiting in the seemingly endless drop-off line, shuttling kids to sports and events in the afternoon, and then doing it all again the next day, […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested seventy-eight-year-old William Campbell on Wednesday, July 31st, 2024, for 4 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a child “The partnerships built by the ICAC Task Force across the state are clearly paying off,” said Attorney General […]
Dear Friends, Today marks the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. It’s always a wonderful opportunity for countries around the world to showcase their very best athletes in a wide range of events. For the athletes themselves, it is often the high point of their careers, after years of dedication and sacrifice. Competing […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a petition today with the Idaho Supreme Court in a challenge to ballot initiative that has been deceptively and inaccurately promoted as the “Open Primary Initiative.” The petition for a writ of prohibition or writ of mandate addresses two flaws with the initiative. First, despite a crystal-clear prior […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador today announced an $86 million multistate settlement in principle with opioid manufacturer Indivior for its role in driving the spread of deadly opioid addictions across Idaho and the country. Indivior produced buprenorphine-based products to treat opioid use disorder. However, as Attorney General Labrador and a multistate coalition of attorneys […]
Dear Friends, There are critical moments and images in American history that we remember clearly. For many before us, it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the assassination of JFK in Dallas. For the next generation, it may have been the moon landing or the Challenger disaster that many of us watched in classrooms. […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador today joined a 22-state amicus brief in support of Florida’s request to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the state to enforce its law regulating sex-modification procedures while the district court’s order enjoining the law is heard on appeal. The case is Doe v. Surgeon General, State […]
Dear Friends, This past couple of weeks saw a whirlwind of activity in the Supreme Court on several issues where Idaho played both large and small roles in many of these landmark decisions. As our office has been involved in so much federal litigation attacking the Biden Administration’s overreach, a frequent criticism leveled by liberals, […]
[BOISE] – The Supreme Court rejected judicial overreach by the Ninth Circuit and restored the ability of struggling West Coast cities to effectively manage their public spaces. The majority opinion cited several times an amicus brief led by Idaho. Before the ruling, cities in the Ninth Circuit could not enforce bans on public camping unless they […]
There are few projects that have solidified such widespread opposition as the Lava Ridge wind development proposal, forced on the people of Idaho by the Biden Administration and an East Coast energy consortium. They want to build a massive wind farm on federal land in Idaho’s beautiful Magic Valley and sell the generated power to […]