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Kudos to Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle for starting a crusade against “outdated, obsolete and unnecessary” laws.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,

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 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,

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.

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.

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.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that three states can challenge the current rules of accessibility for abortion pills.

The states want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current limit of 10 weeks.

The Idaho bill is modeled after a Texas law, passed last year, that gives local law enforcement authority to enforce illegal entry into the U.S. The law, which a number of other states have sought ...

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year to pursue the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling finding that abortion opponents who ...