Rift in Idaho GOP exposed amid multistate water rule lawsuit
A man hooks a fish on the Snake River in Idaho Falls in mid-October 2020. Some top officials in Idaho are raising alarms over the Republican attorney general’s decision not to join a 24-state lawsuit against new waterway protections by the Biden administration. Instead, the state will be joining another lawsuit filed in Texas, which Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador’s office says is a better fit for his state's interests.
(John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)
BOISE (AP) — Some top officials in Idaho are raising alarms over the Republican attorney general's decision not to join a 24-state lawsuit against Biden administration waterway protections that opponents say could impact public and private land across the state.
Instead, Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador's office says the state will soon be joining another lawsuit filed in Texas, contending it's a better fit for the state's interests...
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