In response to my requests for comment, Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch issued a five-paragraph statement today about the declaration of a “judicial emergency” in Idaho by the federal court system yesterday due to the lack of a replacement for U.S. District Judge…
Justice Jim Jones will become chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court on Aug. 1, having been elected by the other members of the court after current Chief Justice Roger Burdick decided not to seek a second four-year term as chief. The last three chief…
At President Obama’s press conference today, he was pressed by a reporter, CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett, about why the nuclear deal with Iran didn’t secure the release of four Americans in Iran, three being held in jail, including Idaho Pastor Saeed…
Idaho’s legal bill to an outside law firm over the defunct Idaho Education Network now tops $1 million, even as the state argues in court over a judge’s order to pay nearly another $1 million for the attorney fees of the winning side in the…
As the terrorism trial of Fazliddin Kurbanov opened in Boise yesterday, prosecutors said the Uzbeki refugee was walking on a “pathway to terror,” communicating regularly with an overseas terrorist organization, buying bags of fertilizer and other bomb-making materials, and talking of attacking a military base...
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