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James Nelson writes, "The political branches aside, at least we don’t have state or federal judges and justices in Montana in the mold of Clarence the Corrupt and Samuel the Sinful."

A disciplinary panel on Monday issued an unprecedented public censure of the former chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court in the wake of a series of misconduct allegations that rocked the state’s judicial branch beginning in 2021.

As some states loosen the restrictions on searches of private property, Montana’s high court has ruled there must be more than a hunch to give law enforcement officers enough latitude to go beyond writing a ticket.

Next year, Montanans are going to select two members of the state Supreme Court – and it appears both of them will be new to the court.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Biden administration does not have the legal authority to enact a one-time student debt relief program, dealing a blow to the 40 million Americans who would have qualified for the program.

Colorado cannot compel a website designer to create custom sites for same-sex couples, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an opinion released Friday.

The Supreme Court shot down affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina on Thursday, tightening restrictions on the use of race in college admissions.

Former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax-cut law will undergo Supreme Court scrutiny next term, with the justices focused on a provision that places taxes on unrealized income.

Limiting the government’s authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court ended a nearly two-decade-old dispute Thursday.

The Montana Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a Third Judicial District Court judge from Anaconda on Thursday for violating judicial ethics rules when he made sexual comments about a witness.