Supreme Court Rejects Republican-Backed Montana Case Based on Controversial Election Law Theory
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the ...
Supreme Court won’t take up new dispute over ‘Independent State Legislature’ theory
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up Montana Republicans’ efforts to revive two state election laws under a ...
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Montanans impacted by Trump's Jan. 6 pardons
President Donald Trump granted clemency to roughly 1,500 defendants accused and convicted of crimes connected to the January ...
Montana elected a firefighter to the Senate. He’s already pushing for solutions
Less than a week into his new job, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy is finding plenty of use for his previous experience as an ...
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Montana bill aims to make judicial races partisan
On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of the most prominent in a Republican-sponsored ...
Voters backed abortion rights, but the state judges they elected might not
"Because we're human, you can't scrub these races of any political connotations at all," said former Montana Supreme Court ...
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Montana partisan judicial elections would ‘align the reality on the ground with the law’
When current Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras ran for a seat on the Montana Supreme Court in 2016, she lost by 13 points to now-retired ...
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'A new era': Gianforte, Montana delegation attend Trump inauguration ceremonies
Montana’s federal delegation, now comprised entirely of Republicans, was joined by GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte in Washington, D.C ...
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What would a federal abortion ban mean for Montana's new constitutional protections?
Montana voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to protect access to abortion. What would federal ...
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Republican lawmakers push for partisan judicial elections
Montana lawmakers heard more than a dozen bills last week aimed at regulating the state’s courts and judges. They included ...
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Voters backed abortion rights; State judges have final say
Montana voters safeguarded the right to abortion in the state’s constitution. They also elected a new chief justice to the Montana Supreme Court who was endorsed by anti-abortion ...