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Capitol Talk: Antifa; Religious Freedom , And Limits On Local Control
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Capitol Talk: Guns, Voting And An Executive Power-up
Gov. Greg Gianforte wants to increase the power of Montana s executive branch. Meanwhile, U.S. Congressman Matt Rosendale loses a battle with the national Republican leadership. And state Legislature moves toward making it harder to vote and easier to carry concealed guns.
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Capitol Talk with Sally Mauk, Holly Michels and Rob Saldin.
Sally Mauk Holly, there are some bills in the hopper that would expand the power of the executive branch, and specifically, that would give Gov. Gianforte the power to appoint judges without going through the judicial nominating commission.
This week on
Capitol Talk, restrictions on abortion and trans rights dominate the House Judiciary Committee while that same committee s Republicans bar reporters from a meeting. All that as old fissures reappear in the Republican caucus.
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Capitol Talk with Sally Mauk, Holly Michels and Rob Saldin.
Sally Mauk Holly, the Judiciary Committee this week passed, on mostly party line votes, bills aimed at limiting abortions and limiting options for transgender Montanans. Let s start with the abortion bills that are now headed to the full House. And these are bills we ve seen before in previous sessions.
Holly Michels They are. They re pretty controversial pieces of legislation, and it feels to me like they re hitting pretty early on in this session. Like you said, there s four abortion bills that all advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee this week. Those were on party line votes, with Republican support and Democratic opposition.
A Coup Attempt, A Budget Proposal And COVID Confusion
Montana lawmakers had very different takes on Wednesday s insurrection and the unfounded claims that fueled it. Gov. Gianforte released his budget proposal. And the Legislature started out with confusing and contradictory COVID-19 protocols.
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Capitol Talk, with MTPR s Sally Mauk, Lee Newspapers State Bureau Chief Holly Michels and UM Political Science Professor Rob Saldin.
Editor s Note: We apologize that Capitol Talk aired Saturday morning instead of its usual time Friday evening. It will return to its normal schedule next Friday.
Capitol Talk is an analysis program, and we took the additional time to make clear that an Op-Ed co-authored by our regular contributor Rob Saldin of the University of Montana Mansfield Center and Political Science Department that ran in Montana newspapers this week is an opinion piece separate from and outside of this analysis program.
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