Lawrence Wasden (Attorney General of Idaho)
Received Donations from Neoconservative Organizations that Big Pharma Gives Money to
- Wasden received 5,000 from Idaho Victory Fund https://idahovictoryfund.com/
- PhRMA donated to Idaho Victory Fund https://elections.sos.idaho.gov/TED/Filings/33762.pdf
Opted Out of Joining in Letter With Other AG’s to Biden on Vaccine Mandate
While Attorney General John O’Connor and 23 other state attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden warning of lawsuits if he continued with his vaccine mandates, Attorney General Wasden opted out of joining the letter.
In the letter, the state AG’s warned that there would be a lawsuit following the implementation of Biden’s proposed mandate on private-sector employees, requiring them to either get a COVID-19 shot, submit to weekly testing, or be fired.
States that joined Oklahoma on the letter include:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Utah
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
The full letter can be read here.
F.V. v. Barron Transgender Name Change on Birth Certificates
Idaho’s liberal and transgender community celebrated a victory out of the federal courthouse in 2018 after Attorney General Wasden conceded all liability.
Up until this case, transgender individuals were not able to change their sex on their birth certificates in Idaho to match the ‘gender they identify with’ until Idaho’s Attorney General not only lost but conceded the case.
This decision now puts Idaho among 46 other states, all of which allow transgender people to change their birth certificates to reflect their gender.
FV vs Baron, which is a case that made national news, involved Dani Martin, a transgender and a plaintiff in F.V. v. Barron. Martin filed a complaint against Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare under F.V. v. Barron last spring.
“It feels great knowing that the gender markers can be changed and for my safety,” says Dani Martin, a transgender woman and a plaintiff in F.V. v. Barron.
A federal judge ruled in favor of Martin after announcing that the state’s Attorney General conceded all liability. Attorney General Wasden paid out Lambda legal, which was the far left law firm representing Martin.
“In this particular case the state actually admitted that they had no rational basis for that rule,” says Cockerille.
