2020 Legislature

Anti-abortion advocates in Idaho are cheering a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that, if it takes effect, would once again give states the right to regulate the procedure.

What a year 2020 has been. For this special end-of-year edition of the Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable, we'll look back on what happened before COVID-19…

Gov. Brad Little says he will call a special legislative session in Boise later this month, but it’s unclear what lawmakers will take up.The governor’s…

While Idaho appears to have closed out its most recent fiscal year in the black, Gov. Brad Little is wasting no time in preemptively cutting $200 million…

The Idaho Supreme Court has sided with the Legislature and the State Board of Education in a budget tug-of-war with state superintendent Sherri Ybarra.In…

After nearly 90 minutes of constitutional arguments and pointed questions, a turf war between state superintendent Sherri Ybarra, the Legislature and the…

A federal judge says her ruling from two years ago barring the automatic denial of a transgender person wanting to change their birth certificate still…

The state of Idaho argues a new law banning transgender people from changing the sex on their birth certificates does not violate a federal court order…

In 2016, following a contentious Presidential campaign season, City Club of Boise partnered with the National Institute for Civil Discourse to organize a…

The 2020 legislature in Idaho was certainly overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. What were the outcomes? What issues were left unadressed? Four…