Idaho is the only state in the 9th Circuit that’s never had a woman U.S. district judge, and members of Idaho’s legal community say a secretive selection process that Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have launched to find a replacement for U.S. District…
Even the New York Times has now felt the need to editorialize on Idaho’s child support enforcement mess, urging Gov. Butch Otter to “promptly summon the Legislature back for a special session and give the full House a chance to correct their colleagues’ foolhardiness.” The…
State schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra was asked by Idaho Education News if she’s advocating for a special session of the Legislature to address Idaho’s child support enforcement crisis; her response was non-committal. Here’s her statement: “There are many capable individuals in the Idaho Legislature, in…
Idaho Falls attorney Steve Taggart, in a column in the Idaho Politics Weekly newsletter that’s published by Zions Bank this week, takes on the main arguments raised against SB 1067, the child support enforcement bill, by Reps. Kathy Sims, Ron Nate and Lynn Luker in...
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