(Kuna, Idaho) Save Our Ground, rural community advocates, gained a temporary stay in Ada County, to stop an industrial-scale solar farm in the middle of farms in the Melba and Kuna communities during Ada County Commissioners meetings in July and August. They are planning a community benefit concert to fund the non-profit. Dustin Ferdinand, one […]
[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 […]
[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 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 announced an administrative appeal yesterday with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The appeal asks the agency to reconsider its determinations that the Lava Ridge project, a proposed wind turbine development on Bureau of Land Management property in Idaho’s Magic Valley, poses “no hazard” to aviation in the area. The vast […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher released the following statement after voting in favor of the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, H.R. 8580: “Supporting the men and women who served in our nation’s armed forces is of the utmost importance,” said Congressman Fulcher. “Today, I […]
[BOISE] – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, along with attorneys general from North Dakota, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, South Carolina, and South Dakota, sued the EPA and the Biden Administration to protect state rights over their water and wildlife resources. Idaho and North Dakota are leading the coalition of states, which filed their complaint in the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01), and U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced legislation under the Congressional Review Act to stop Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule for heavy-duty vehicle emission standards that would require 30-40% of all new trucks be electric in just eight years. This legislation is being introduced alongside U.S. Senator […]
[BOISE] – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach in filing a lawsuit on behalf of 21 states opposing an ATF rule that would prevent law-abiding Americans from privately selling firearms. The rule seeks to require a federal firearms dealer license for every individual who sells a firearm for anything the ATF […]
MERIDIAN, ID – U.S. Representatives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson and U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (all R-Idaho), in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, announced seven “Passport Fairs” to be held throughout the state from May 29 to June 1, 2024. The fairs held in Sandpoint, Idaho Falls, Coeur d’Alene, Moscow, […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today a multi-million-dollar settlement with several tobacco companies. The settlement resolves years of litigation among the tobacco companies and Idaho concerning Idaho’s right to funds from the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. This settlement resolves the claims over disputed funds from the years 2005 to the present, as well future […]
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed state’s Reply Brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in State of Idaho v. United States of America, a case confronting questions about a state’s authority to regulate abortion since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs decision, which put abortion laws back under […]