The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to weigh in on a pair of state election laws declared unconstitutional by the Montana Supreme Court early last year. The laws sought to ban same-day voter registration and paid absentee ballot collection.

The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country.

Zooey Zephyr will not allow herself to be marginalized, no matter how hard some people try to make that happen. She won election to the Montana House of Representatives in 2022, becoming the first openly transgender person to serve in that legislative body.

On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of the most prominent in a Republican-sponsored suite of bills that would overhaul Montana’s judicial branch.

Senate Republicans have numerous pieces of legislation to consider during the 2025 session, but few are as important as bills to reform Montana’s overreaching courts.

Montana lawmakers heard more than a dozen bills last week aimed at regulating the state’s courts and judges. They included one of the top priorities for Republicans: to make judicial elections partisan.

Montana’s federal delegation, now comprised entirely of Republicans, was joined by GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte in Washington, D.C., on Monday to celebrate the inauguration of President Donald Trump to his

Sep 26 2024 Brief amicus curiae of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections filed. Sep 27 2024 Waiver of right of respondents Montana Democratic Party, et al. to respond filed. Sep 27 2024 Brief amicus curiae of National Republican Senatorial Committee ...

Governor Greg Gianforte is urging Montana legislators to pass a bill that would reveal the political affiliations of judicial candidates.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the

Opinion: Some Republicans want to change judicial elections from non-partisan to partisan because they don’t like the way judges have struck down a handful of previously passed bills as unconstitutional.

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 ...