Jessica Flint (Photo courtesy Jake Eaton.

Power players in the state’s Republican Party and Montana’s congressional delegates are among those who have signed a letter in support of Jessica Flint, a controversial appointee to the Criminal Justice Oversight Council.

The gubernatorial appointment, which deals with civil rights for incarcerated prisoners, has drawn the ire of progressives in the state for removing representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, who previously sat on the council.

Flint works for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy organization.

The letter to Gov. Greg Gianforte reads as a response to a separate letter penned by Disability Rights Montana to Gianforte last week.

That letter, signed by a number of organizations and some Democratic

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