News Releases - 2024 Archive - Page 8

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a victory in defending stabilizing braces, the firearms attachments designed to help people with disabilities protect themselves by improving safety and accuracy. Attorney General Bird released the following statement in response to the federal court of appeals' decision: “This victory upholds Americans’...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced victory in her office’s appeal to defend Iowa’s age-appropriate books and parental rights law. Attorney General Bird released the following statement in response to the ruling:  “We went to court to defend Iowa’s schoolchildren and parental rights, and we won. This victory...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers today announced a petition calling on the Biden-Harris EPA to create a farming freedom rule to end misleading labels on glyphosate and stop California from dictating how Iowa farmers farm. The announcement was made at a press conference...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 21-state brief, urging a federal court to uphold Congress’s law that protects American privacy rights by requiring TikTok to cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party or face a national ban. Earlier this year, Congress passed a bipartisan law banning TikTok...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced that since January, she has traveled to meet with Iowans in all of the state’s 99 counties. These meetings consisted of roundtable discussions, business tours, and community conversations that sought to not only identify the issues Iowans are facing, but to create...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a 20-state coalition in a letter to the Biden-Harris administration, demanding it stop its fearmongering attempt to block state laws that protect Americans from discriminatory debanking. Debanking discriminates against Americans for their religious and political beliefs and denies them access to basic...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today issued a warning to Iowans about devastating lottery scams. Last year, Americans lost nearly $340 million to lottery scams. Lottery scams occur when con artists tell victims that they have won a prize and then convince the victims that they have to make payments to receive...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Governor Kim Reynolds today announced that the state will provide $5.5 million in one-time bridge funding to ensure Iowa crime victims continue to have access to critical services such as medical and mental health care, temporary housing, lost wages, and courtroom advocacy. Earlier...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 15-state coalition in supporting President Trump’s appeal of a court order wrongly fining him more than $350 million. The suit was brought by New York’s Democrat attorney general, who campaigned on a pledge of using “every legal avenue to pursue” President...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced victory after a federal court blocked the radical Biden-Harris Administration’s attempt to rewrite more than 50 years of landmark protections for women. Attorney General Bird released the following statement: “Today’s victory delivers a major blow to the Biden-Harris Administration’s war on women...