MONTANA FREE PRESS — State Senate Republicans empaneled to “rein in” the courts got their first chance to question a district judge on Monday. It did not go smoothly.
Judge Mike Menahan of the First Judicial District in Helena was asked to swear an oath to testify truthfully, something rarely done outside of court proceedings or notorizations. The judge declined, explaining that in his decade-plus experience with the Legislature, including four years as a Democratic state representative for Helena, he’d never seen anyone compelled to do so.