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DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a bipartisan coalition of states in urging Congress to pass the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act, a bill that will add federal district judges to keep up with increasing national demand. Small and large states alike have a stake...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today hosted a press conference with the family of Maureen Brubaker-Farley, an Iowa cold case victim, to shine a light on the impact of solving cold cases and the importance of never losing hope. The announcement was made in a press conference at the...

DES MOINES—Today, on the anniversary of the barbaric October 7 terror attack on Israel, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird reaffirms her commitment to standing with Israel and against terrorism. “Today marks one year since the worst attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust,” said Attorney General Bird. “Please join...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a letter with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to Congress in support of life-saving AM radios as car manufacturers remove them from new models. Last week, Hurricane Helene tore through the eastern United States, leaving devastation in its path. These storms serve...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led 21 other states in putting Nasdaq on notice for its discriminatory gender, sexuality, and race-based quotas for its directors. In December 2020, Nasdaq announced its new quotas mandating that most Nasdaq-listed companies have at least two directors who self-identify as females, racial...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today sued the Biden-Harris Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) over a new rule that restricts how much money jails and prisons can charge inmates for phone calls, depriving the facilities of funding and resources that they depend on to reduce risks and solve crimes. The...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a 19-state coalition in a letter to ActBlue, one of the nation’s largest political campaign fundraising platforms, demanding proof of its donation verification systems amid concerns of illegal donating. Verifying campaign donations prevents illegal donation schemes that may compromise elections. Illegal donation...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led 21 other states in supporting the appeal of a district court ruling that upheld Massachusetts’s radical pork ban. Massachusetts’s new “Question 3” pork ban goes further than Proposition 12 by preventing other states from selling pork in, or even transporting pork through, Massachusetts...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced a lawsuit against Global Fiberglass Solutions (GFS) and its executives, Donald Lilly and Ronald Albrecht, for violations of Iowa’s solid waste laws. GFS failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind turbine blades that were stockpiled at multiple locations across Iowa. In 2017,...

DES MOINES—In a report issued today, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has concluded that the July 30, 2024, fatal shooting of Weston Derby by two Des Moines police officers was “legally justified.” The Attorney General’s conclusion was based on a review and investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation....