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SEATTLE - Washington governor-elect Bob Ferguson announced on Monday that he is creating a subcommittee in his transition team with the sole aim of fighting Project 2025, which they expect will be put into motion by the Trump Administration. Ferguson's committee will be co-chaired by Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates CEO Jennifer Allen and King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón, who formerly served as executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project from 2008 to 2023. "We are preparing in case President Trump attacks Washingtonians’ core freedoms," Governor-elect Ferguson said. "We will keep Washington moving forward no matter what happens at...

SUIT AGAINST BARNETTS DISMISSED A lawsuit filed against Cochise County rancher Roger Barnett, his wife, Barbara, and Donald Barnett, has been dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge John M. Roll. Border Action Network, a group which advocates open borders with Mexico, filed the initial complaint. The lawsuit accused the Barnetts of stopping and reporting a group of 30 undocumented immigrants last October 11 on a ranch in Cochise County owned by Donald Mackenzie. Mackenzie claimed in the lawsuit that he encountered the Barnetts at one of the wells on his (Mackenzie’s) ranch and that he thought Barnett was a...