[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 […]
[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 […]
[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] – 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 […]
[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 […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a coalition of 27 states in defending American firearms manufacturers against attempts to hold the companies liable for gun violence in Mexico. If a lower court’s ruling is allowed to stand, Americans’ Second Amendment rights could be threatened. In their petition, the attorneys general ask the Supreme Court of […]
Dear Friends, I have exciting news to share with you. Working closely with my counterpart in Kentucky, we handed a significant defeat to the Biden Administration and their extremist environmental agenda through a lawsuit we filed at the end of last year. The suit was decided last week in a Kentucky district court and the […]
Dear Friends, The immigration crisis at our Southern border has reached a critical mass and just this month we are seeing a blizzard of activity between the states and the Biden Administration, SCOTUS, the circuit courts, and assorted parties, all to determine who has the authority to enforce federal laws when the federal government abrogates […]
Dear Friends, The legislative session is drawing to a close and I wanted to provide you with a quick update on three bills of significant importance to my office, on the topics of Human Trafficking, Medicaid Fraud, and Internet Crimes Against Children. I am pleased to share that all three of these bills have moved […]
[BOISE] – Attorneys General Raúl Labrador of Idaho and Todd Rokita of Indiana led 26 other states in filing a brief with the United States Supreme Court challenging Illinois’ unconstitutional ban of AR-15 rifles and their standard 30-round magazines. “This ruling from the Seventh Circuit flies in the face of the Bruen decision and the […]
Last Saturday, thanks to efforts by the Idaho Republican Party, nearly 40,000 Idaho Republicans were able to cast their vote for their preferred Presidential Candidate. This could not have happened without the Republican Party acting after the Secretary of State, the legislature and the Governor all agreed to cancel the March Presidential Primary. What is […]