James Nelson writes, "The Judicial branch is preforming its constitutional duty to check and balance the legislative and executive branches—which, since 2021, are hell-bent on stripping Montanans of their fundamental rights."
he Montana Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute over the ballot statement for a proposed measure that would specifically protect access to abortion in the state Constitution
The Montana Supreme Court will decide whether a mining company can suck millions of gallons of water out of the ground and keep it for months without having to obtain a water-right permit.
Senate Republican leadership is heading up a last-ditch effort to try to block a court-ordered override poll of a popular bill Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed last session, making similar arguments the governor made in a lawsuit and the court has disagreed with multiple times.
The state argues that the statute the judge struck down as unconstitutional could not solely be responsible for climate change and so the case never should have been decided in the first place.
Judge Jerry Lynch writes, "Montana voters should expect to be pummeled with negative advertising in support of extremists candidates who act like politicians, not judges."