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Montana’s Constitutional transparency in government is the point of ‘We The People’
When I filed to run for delegate to Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention, I felt that writing a new Constitution was all about “We the People.” Those electing the delegates were…
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Chaos at the Justice Department
President Trump has transformed the agency. We look at what’s happening on the inside. President Trump’s second term has been difficult for the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. The…
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State Senator leads new effort with old charges to oust Supreme Court justice
After the 2025 Legislature, Republicans who were in the majority in both chambers lamented that they didn’t get more done to refashion the state’s judiciary, vowing to take up the effort in…
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Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns
Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, whom he accused…
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Legislator Bill Mercer confirmed to U.S. District Court judgeship
Former Montana U.S. attorney Bill Mercer was confirmed to a U.S. District Court judgeship in a partisan vote by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday night. The Billings attorney, currently in…
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Governor appoints two district judges in Yellowstone County
Following House Bill 913, Yellowstone County officially has two new judges. Gov. Greg Gianforte appointed Seth Cunningham and Edward Zink to serve on the Thirteenth Judicial District in Yellowstone County, the…
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Knudsen sued over ballot language edits
Backers of two ballot initiatives calling for nonpartisan elections for Montana courts are suing Attorney General Austin Knudsen for editing their ballot language. Knudsen now faces three lawsuits for changes to…
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Attorney general’s edits to ballot initiatives anger petitioners
A second proposed ballot initiative mandating nonpartisan judicial elections has received the OK of Montana’s attorney general, but with the same language that triggered a lawsuit against the AG last…
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Protecting your rights and yourselves
Montana is fortunate to have a state Constitution that stands at the top of the most innovative and comprehensive statements of civil liberties, political freedoms and citizen protections in any…
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Chief Justice Cory Swanson – Placing Outreach on the Supreme Court Docket
It was indeed an honor to have the Honorable Cory Swanson, Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, visit in-studio. The outreach represented one of Justice Swanson’s tenets in judicial…