Dear Friends, The Ninth Circuit recently ruled that a medical center employee’s sincerely held belief did not count as religion, even though the court never questioned her sincerity. Its rulings bind every federal court in Idaho, which is why I led a coalition of 18 states, Puerto Rico, and the Arizona Legislature in asking the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 30, 2026 Boise, Idaho — The Idaho Republican Party today hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Little v. Hecox, which upheld Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and affirmed that states may maintain women’s and girls’ sports teams for biological females under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth […]
How Could It Change America This is a critically important question that touches on the long-term future of our country. Here’s what the data currently shows, drawing from U.S. Census Bureau projections, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and Pew Research data. The Current Birthrate Numbers: The Center for Immigration Studies estimated 225,000–250,000 annual births […]
This issue could change the face of our nation over the next four decades. The Original Purpose: Yes, It Was About Slavery: The citizenship clause was added to the Constitution in 1868 and was intended to overrule the Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that a Black person whose ancestors […]
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 […]
Dear Friends, For over a century, America has operated under an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause that many now believe is the only constitutionally permissible reading. Automatic citizenship for anyone born on American soil, regardless of their parents’ legal status, has become so accepted that courts have treated it as settled law. Even […]
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 […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced today that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Idaho’s case to protect women’s sports from biological males. The Court will review Little v. Hecox, where Attorney General Labrador is defending Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act after the Ninth Circuit blocked enforcement of the law. “Idaho’s women and girls […]
Today, the Supreme Court ruled on the ability of District Courts to issue sweeping national injunctions. This ruling is a major victory for the Trump administration, which has been battling with rogue district judges who have been issuing nationwide injunctions on his executive orders. At the heart of this 6-3 ruling is how it will […]
Over the past several years I have written about the evolving changes in medicine that have occurred with the replacement of traditional medical ethics—think the Hippocratic Oath for example that is almost never used anymore at Medical School graduations, with a secular humanistic ethic that early in the nineteen sixties evolved into medical consumerism and […]
BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador of Idaho and Attorney General Austin Knudsen of Montana filed an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to uphold the constitutional right to bear arms and strike down Hawaii’s sweeping restrictions on lawful public carry. The brief, filed in Wolford v. Lopez, asks the Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling […]