Received a thoughtful and compelling email today from one of my closest lifelong friends. Fritz and I played junior and senior league baseball together, and we were teammates in football from eighth grade through high school. He was a great player on a great team. I was good, but not great. He sent me a […]
It was my great honor to attend my grandson’s Little League All-Star game in Seattle last week. It has been 30 years since my own children played, and 62 years since I first took the field. Across generations of Livingston boys, those games have become part of our family’s shared memory—along with lessons that can […]
Thirty years ago, I drove from Boise to Fruitland on a cold winter night to watch a Tuesday basketball game between Fruitland and Bishop Kelly. My son was playing for Bishop Kelly, and as I settled into my seat on the nearly empty visitors’ side, I noticed an elderly couple sitting just behind me. Only […]
Dear Friends, This week, Idaho had its day before the United States Supreme Court. More than five years after we became the first state in the nation to pass a law protecting women’s sports from biological males, nine justices heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox. I’m incredibly proud of my legal team for representing Idaho […]
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox, Idaho’s landmark case defending the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, the first-in-the-nation law protecting female athletes from competing against biological males. Idaho Solicitor General Alan Hurst argued before the nine justices, defending the state’s authority to maintain sex-separated athletics based on biological […]
Stop Scouting the Opposition—Start Perfecting Our Own Game Plan When the great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was asked how much time he spent scouting opposing teams, his answer was direct—none. “We spend all our time thinking about what we do, and we hope our opponents spend all their time thinking about what we do.” […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today that U.S. District Judge David Nye rejected plaintiff Lindsay Hecox’s attempt to dismiss the district court case in Hecox v. Little, the landmark challenge to Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. Judge Nye granted Idaho’s motion to strike the dismissal notice, keeping the case pending in district court […]
This will be one of my shortest articles. Above is a picture of the Naval Academy Women’s Soccer team. First of all, these young women earn your respect—every day. Someday, they will be F-18 pilots, nuclear engineers, ship drivers, or Marine Recon officers. Today, though, they lead regimented and disciplined lives, learning to be good […]
Dear Friends, After five years of litigation, Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act has finally reached the United States Supreme Court. Now, at this crucial moment, the ACLU is trying to dismiss the case entirely, not because the issue has been resolved, but because they understand the strength of our arguments. Last week, my office […]
Dear Friends, Last week, I joined 25 attorneys general demanding the NCAA restore championships, records, and awards to female athletes who were cheated out of what they earned. For years, biological males competed in women’s sports and stole honors that belonged to the women who trained for them. The letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker […]
In 2019, the University of Montana allowed a runner named June Eastwood, a biological male who had adopted a female identity, to compete against women. Among Eastwood’s competitors were two young women attending Idaho State University, Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall, who were unjustly defeated by Eastwood on multiple occasions. The following year, the Idaho Legislature passed HB 500, making Idaho the first state […]
Dear Friends, Five years ago, Idaho made history by becoming the first state in the country to pass a law protecting women’s sports from biological males. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear our case, Little v. Hecox, giving us the opportunity to defend that law before the nation’s highest court. After years of […]