This November, Montanans will elect a new Chief Justice and an Associate Justice to the state Supreme Court, and there are two candidates running for each seat. To date I’ve not had any cases involving any of the candidates, but as an active member of the Montana Bar, I’ve had the ...
As a result, Montana voters will have the opportunity to elect a new Chief Justice to lead our judicial branch. If the past is prologue – and no doubt it will be – Montana voters should expect to be pummeled with negative advertising in support of extremists candidates who act like ...
Tester, Montana’s only statewide elected Democrat, has successfully outrun Democratic presidential candidates in the past, and he may need to do that again in a state Donald Trump won heavily in 2020. “What Democrats in this state need to do is carve out their own personal brand that diff...
Reminder: In the past two presidential elections, only once has a state voted for presidential and Senate candidates from different parties: Maine in 2020. Lead Art: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) addresses the crowd at the end of the Michigan Democratic Party...
19. FECA created limitations and restrictions on contributions to federal candidates and political parties, and completely prohibited certain corporate and union contributions, speech, and expenditures. The act also required that these contributions and expenditures be disclosed in the campaigns of those ...
or making expenditures on behalf of or against judicial candidates. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Montana's judicial nonpartisan election law in American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock, 567 U.S. ___ (Sup.Ct. 2012).Although candidates must remain nonpartisan, spending...
Mr. Trump was in Montana to campaign for Republican candidates, including at-large Rep. Greg Gianforte and U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. Toward the start of the speech, Mr. Trump concentrated his fire on Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester, who is leading Rosendale in the polls despit...
between Gianforte and Fox has become somewhat nasty in recent weeks, suggesting that Fox could have a chance at the upset. There is also a slight chance Olszewski could sneak up the middle if voters are turned off by the bad blood between his rivals. Democrats have two serious candi...
19. FECA created limitations and restrictions on contributions to federal candidates and political parties, and completely prohibited certain corporate and union contributions, speech, and expenditures. The act also required that these contributions and expenditures be disclosed in the campaigns of those ...