constitution

Andrea Olsen writes, "To protect our rights, liberties and freedoms, government power must be constrained and the rule of law upheld. To do otherwise, betrays the promise of America."

Jim Elliott writes, "The immediate and official government response to the killing of Veterans Administration nurse Alex Pretti was that his killing was justified because he had a gun."

Jim Nelson writes, "What few of us will risk speaking out, marching, or engaging in peaceful protest when doing so carries the possibility of being seriously harmed—or even killed—by an inadequately supervised government agent."

The Library of Congress said a coding error led the writ of habeas corpus — which the Trump administration suggested suspending — to disappear from the official online copy of the Constitution.

The Montana Supreme Court further strengthened the right-to-know provided in the Montana Constitution by clarifying when judges can award court fees to plaintiffs who prevail in lawsuits against the state government.

Corey Ellis writes of Rep. Ryan Zinke, "He has been silent on the Trump administrations near constant abuse of executive power and disregard for the Constitution."

A bill that would ask voters to vote on a constitutional amendment to define personhood as starting at conception sparked contentious debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

Jon Ellingson writes that Montana's Constitution "contains many rights and principles that are as forward thinking today as they were more than 50 years ago."

Jim Nelson writes, "These attacks on state judicial branches have been incremental, a law here, a law there, chip, chipping away at the third branches of government, with the ultimate goal of bringing judges and the courts under the control and heavy thumbs of the legislative and executive branches of government."

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."