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Idaho’s Republican attorney general’s office accused President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice of potentially violating state ethics rules by threatening the state’s top election official with a criminal prosecution while suing him for the state’s voter rolls.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Idaho after the state refused to hand over sensitive voter registration data — the latest example of resistance to the Trump administration’s voter roll crusade extending into strongly Republican states.
Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls.
A federal judge upheld a set of Idaho laws enacted last year by the Republican-controlled Legislature that eliminated the use of student IDs for voter registration and in-person voting.
An Idaho judge rejected Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s (R) challenge on Thursday to the “Open Primaries Initiative,” ruling that it will be on the ballot this November.
The Idaho Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from state Attorney General Raúl Labrador (R) seeking to block an initiative from the November ballot that would implement an open primary system and other electoral reforms.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed an executive order Wednesday banning noncitizen voting in the state, even though it’s already illegal, falsely claiming it’s necessary because the Biden administration is “actively promoting registration of noncitizens to vote.”
In a unanimous ruling issued yesterday, the Idaho Supreme Court dismissed a state-level lawsuit challenging a pair of youth voter suppression laws enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year.
On Monday, Oct. 2, an Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging a set of Idaho voter suppression laws that eliminate the use of student IDs as an acceptable form of identification for voter registration and in-person voting.
On Monday, April 17, March For Our Lives Idaho and the Idaho Alliance for Retired Americans filed an amended complaint in a federal lawsuit challenging two voter suppression laws that make it more difficult for Idahoans to register to vote and cast a ballot.
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