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Raul Labrador is Good at What He Does for Himself, Lousy for Those He Supposedly Represents [1]
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Date: 2023-12-27
By Michael Strickland
Raul Labrador is an opportunist who has been riding a gravy train that began with his initial boost to Congress on the backs of Tea Party anger and an opponent who was the dubbed the dumbest and worst candidate ever. In fairness, Trump has run several worse candidates since then, helping the GOP to continually redefine rock bottom.
When voters elect an attorney general, they are hiring a lawyer to represent the collective legal interests of the state. Turning over that duty of legal representation to an unelected political advocacy group is inherently problematic.
So reads an opinion in the Idaho Statesman called Labrador sells out Idaho interests by letting extremist group act as our lawyers.
“It is a very bad practice to allow an advocacy group to represent the state. They will represejnt their true client, the advocacy group, not the state,” James Tierney, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and the former attorney general of Maine, told Chris Geidner, a longtime legal journalist who writes the Law Dork substack.
Raul is once again playing the same cheap right-wing fiddle.
The Alliance Defending Freedom quietly entered an agreement with Attorney General Raúl Labrador to represent the state in appealing the federal court decision that prevented implementation of Idaho’s total abortion ban in cases where it conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
The law mandates hospitals to offer emergency care to all patients. Women requiring pregnancy termination for life or health preservation, are included. But Idaho permits abortion solely in situations endangering a woman's life.
The group Labrador brought into this case has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist hate group.
It has taken a leading role in endeavors to limit women's rights and criminalize the lives of LGBTQ individuals in Idaho and nationwide, aligning with a broader Christian nationalist agenda.
As the opinion piece mentions, poor Raul's "experience as a litigator was nowhere near sufficient to be the state’s lawyer."
So it seems he’s beyond his depth in this case, and it might make sense to seek outside help.
But …
It's just another day in Idaho, with another collosal far right mess. How is your day going?
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