The district court judge presiding during a two-year court battle over how the state allowed residents to change a birth certificate didn’t just strike down a 2021 law as unconstitutional.
Asia Carl Soapes, 40, raped two underage girls, one of them several times over a period of about four years. Initial charges filed against Soapes in 2021 prompted a second survivor of his abuse to speak with investigators.
Judge Michael Moses declares Senate Bill 280 unconstitutional and holds the State of Montana in contempt for not following the orders of the court and the state's Supreme Court.