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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.

Evan Barrett writes, "Thomas is in the news a lot lately, and not about his very conservative opinions on important Supreme Court cases."

A proposed constitutional amendment to change the process to select supreme court justices in Montana has advanced to a final vote in the Montana Legislature, but will need to gain more support to make it on the ballot.

Dorothy Bradley writes, "Montanans are increasingly concerned about protecting the independence of their judiciary."

A bill that would reduce the number of Montana Supreme Court justices during the next few years would create backlogs that would delay judicial decisions and might violate the constitution.

A longstanding framework used to determine racial gerrymandering is likely to see changes after the Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on Alabama redistricting found to diminish the voting power of Black communities.