Idaho is seeking to join Texas with a proposed bill that would allow local police to check people's immigration and make it a state crime for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. Why it matters: GOP-led states are expected to see legislation allowing them to enforce federal immigration law amid a friendly incoming Trump administration despite concerns over constitutionality.

Kudos to Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle for starting a crusade against “outdated, obsolete and unnecessary” laws. Moyle’s House Bill 14 — the “Idaho Code Cleanup Act” — would cleanse Idaho’s statute books of laws that are void,

A Texas federal judge Thursday ruled Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri can join a case challenging access to the abortion pill. Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk allowed the states to pursue legal action in Texas that seeks to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from allowing online prescriptions for Mifepristone over concerns that it could “undermine state abortion laws and frustrate state law enforcement,

The bill would give police in Idaho authority to charge people with misdemeanors and felonies for living in the U.S. without authorization.

A Texas judge has allowed three states to move forward with a legal challenge seeking to impose stricter rules on the abortion pill mifepristone, reigniting the battle over medication abortion access in the U.

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can pursue legal action to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from allowing online prescriptions.

The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday.

Wildlife officials said they pulled a “rarity” from an East Texas bay that hadn’t been spotted in decades. The Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Coastal Fisheries division caught a rock sea bass while trawling in Aransas Bay, according to a Jan. 15 Facebook post from the agency.

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A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide

Republican States Can Move Ahead With Abortion Pill Lawsuit in Texas By Brendan Pierson, Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit ...

Idaho's mountain snowpack is below average and the Henrys Fork Basis areas fell into drought conditions, officials say.