Montana’s Supreme Court Justices are elected by the people, rather than appointed by the executive branch. This includes the Chief Justice, who is popularly elected rather than being selected from among the sitting justices. Supreme Court races in Montana are supposed to be non-partisan, and ca...
Already, these extremists have tried to take over Montana’s highest court. Over the past nine years, they have spent more than $8 million on negative and misleading ads, in most cases attacking well-qualified, impartial justices on the Montana Supreme Court. My motivating purpose is to prote...
The Court’s opinion was signed by four justices. Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote a scathing, well-reasoned dissent and was joined by one other justice and a District Court judge sitting for Chief Justice McGrath. While in decline, bamboo scaffolding is still in use and has been used to erect...
Breaking from many in his party, Hovde called for a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices and voiced support for term limits. “We should absolutely have a code of ethics for the justices. I don't think they should be engaging in any kind of private investment in the st...
The Montana Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the Montana court system. The constitution of 1889 provided for the election of no fewer than three Supreme Court justices, and one chief justice. Each court member served a six-year term. The legislature increased the number of justice...
“If they can’t win in court, they’ll change the court, they’ll change the justices that make the decisions, and that’s ongoing.” The situation looks fairly clear to Bruce Farling, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited, a conservation group that has worked to defend the stream...
Picture a six-foot long ballot with everything on it including federal races (President, Senate & Congress); state races (Governor/Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices); regional races...