That’s the Select Committee on Judicial Accountability and Transparency.
The panel, formed this month as part of the Legislature’s response to a separation-of-powers standoff that’s ensnared all three branches of government, will “no doubt” continue to meet into the interim, Sen. Greg Hertz, the committee’s chairman, said in a meeting on Thursday.
That’s because the committee’s attempt to subpoena the entire state Supreme Court and the Supreme Court administrator as part of a wide-ranging probe into alleged impartiality and poor public records management practices yielded only mixed results: Justices appeared before the committee over Zoom this week, but only to explain why, in general, they could not hand over the cache of potentially sensitive emails requested by Republican leadership.
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The Montana Senate voted down a bill on Wednesday that would have restricted absentee ballot collection in Montana, with some Republicans joining Democrats who opposed the measure as creating an unnecessary barrier for mail-in voting.
House Bill 406 sought to outlaw a practice commonly used by get-out-the-vote groups, in which organizations submit mail-in ballots collected from voters. Under the measure, voters could have still let family members and legal guardians submit their ballots for them, but they would have been be required to enter their personal information into a state registry subject to public information laws.
Sen. Bryce Bennett, D-Missoula, pointed out that an amendment added to the bill Friday by a Senate panel went further than just prohibiting get-out-the-vote groups from collecting votersâ ballots. Caregivers for voters with disabilities, limited mobility or medical problems would also be prohibited from turning in those ballots.