HB 915 before the Montana Legislature now, seeks to change Montana’s Constitution by allowing the governor to appoint Supreme Court judges. This stands in stark contrast to both the Montana
Marc Racicot writes, It doesn’t take long to visualize the inevitable chaos and spectacle that will attend the creation of a Byzantine citizens grand jury procedure; nor, but for a moment, to foresee the unlimited expense to the county within which the grand jury is impanelled.
Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte on Monday joined GOP legislators and Montana’s Republican attorney general, in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in their dispute with the Montana Supreme Court over whether that court is improperly “prejudging proposed legislation.”