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In Boise this week, one county commissioner’s 12-year-old son was home alone when protesters showed up there. In late October, protesters went to the home of Utah s state epidemiologist. And in Orem, Utah, last month, demonstrators targeted the governor s residence after he enacted a state of emergency.
Orem, at least, has responded with an ordinance that limits protests at private homes.
University of Idaho law professor Richard Seamon says there is legal precedent for that, pointing to a similar ordinance in Wisconsin that led to the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Frisby v. Schultz. People started protesting outside of the home of a doctor who performed abortions, Seamon said. And the town in which he lived enacted an ordinance that banned all picketing before or about the residence or dwelling of any individual.”
By Keith Ridler
BOISE, Idaho (AP) â Idaho s attorney general on Thursday said heâs declining to join a lawsuit filed by Texas to overturn the outcome of the presidential election by invalidating the results in four battleground states Donald Trump lost.
Republican Lawrence Wasden in a statement said the decision is necessary to protect Idahoâs sovereignty. UPDATE: Late Thursday, Gov. Brad Little announced that he ll join the lawsuit and file an amicus brief, without Wasden, saying he s joining an Idaho Republican Party effort. Hours, earlier, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin had announced that she d join Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, and other GOP lawmakers from Idaho, Alaska and Arizona in filing an amicus brief supporting the Texas lawsuit.Â