Supreme Court Rejects Republican-Backed Montana Case Based on Controversial Election Law Theory
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle2d
Montana Senate Republican leaders looking into use of $170K of state funds by former president
The former Republican state Senate president denied Friday any wrongdoing in connection with a $170,000 no-bid contract he signed in his final days in office, an expenditure that is now ...
Independent Record6d
GOP Senate probing $170K state contract legislator quietly awarded to business associate
A Republican senator from Hamilton recently ... skipping the public bidding process, the Montana State News Bureau has learned. Using leftover funds from a legislative committee he formed last ...
Daily Inter Lake4d
Montana Senate Republican investigate use state funds by former president
Montana State News Bureau first reported that ... Committee on Judicial Oversight and Reform has raised concerns with Republican leaders in the Senate. Ellsworth contracted an outside consultant ...
Independent Record6d
Partisan judicial elections proposal for Montana gets first hearing in Senate committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard another slate of bills Thursday produced by the select committee on judicial oversight, including one that seeks to make judicial races partisan, an idea ...
FOX8 Cleveland2d
Supreme Court rejects GOP-backed Montana case based on controversial election law theory
Montana was appealing a ruling that struck down two GOP-backed election laws. It’s relying on the independent state legislature theory, which holds that state judges shouldn’t be allowed to ...
Billings Gazette3d
Bill would increase private fish pond license fees to $600
Former Montana Republican legislator Rick Jore, of Ronan, was the lone opponent testifying against the bill. Jore said he’d been raising fish since he was 13 years old and has long operated ...