The state told landowners that the filing
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:01 am
Don Harkins of The Idaho Observer and Jailhouse Lawyer Scott Thurston, myself and other J.A.I.L. members and associates, we have contact with activists all over the state. We are going to mobilize the state for a petition drive and we will travel from county to county this spring and we will secure the 43,685 signatures necessary to get J.A.I.L. for judges on the ballot for November," said Johnson.
J.A.I.L. will be holding an organizational meeting phone number list Friday, January 18. The purpose of this meeting is to organize the petition drive. "This is the best news we have had since Rose started the J.A.I.L. chapter in Idaho. The 1997 emasculation of initiative and referenda laws made it all but impossible for Citizens to bypass the legislature to make laws -- which was the purpose of the exercise, in my opinion. Pass or fail of J.A.I.L. will now be on the shoulders of those of us who are motivated to see that J.A.I.L. for judges become law," said Harkins.
In 1986 landowners in the Snake River Basin were directed by the state of Idaho to file water rights claims for springs that originate on their property as part of the state's Snake River Adjudication project. would be for their own protection as it would prevent other parties from encroaching on their springs. As it turns out, the water rights filings generated an Idaho Department of Water Resources list of privately held springs in north central Idaho. The list is being used by the U.S. government and the Nez Perce Tribe in conjunction with an 1863 treaty to claim 50 percent ownership of the springs identified in state-mandated water claims filings. In a letter dated October 31, 2001, Idaho Attorney General Al Lance notified some 1,800 affected property owners that the Tribe and the U.S. government had filed co-claims against the springs, that the AG didn't find out about it and the time to challenge the claims had expired.
J.A.I.L. will be holding an organizational meeting phone number list Friday, January 18. The purpose of this meeting is to organize the petition drive. "This is the best news we have had since Rose started the J.A.I.L. chapter in Idaho. The 1997 emasculation of initiative and referenda laws made it all but impossible for Citizens to bypass the legislature to make laws -- which was the purpose of the exercise, in my opinion. Pass or fail of J.A.I.L. will now be on the shoulders of those of us who are motivated to see that J.A.I.L. for judges become law," said Harkins.
In 1986 landowners in the Snake River Basin were directed by the state of Idaho to file water rights claims for springs that originate on their property as part of the state's Snake River Adjudication project. would be for their own protection as it would prevent other parties from encroaching on their springs. As it turns out, the water rights filings generated an Idaho Department of Water Resources list of privately held springs in north central Idaho. The list is being used by the U.S. government and the Nez Perce Tribe in conjunction with an 1863 treaty to claim 50 percent ownership of the springs identified in state-mandated water claims filings. In a letter dated October 31, 2001, Idaho Attorney General Al Lance notified some 1,800 affected property owners that the Tribe and the U.S. government had filed co-claims against the springs, that the AG didn't find out about it and the time to challenge the claims had expired.