Montana officially has two campaigns jockeying to be the champion of nonpartisan judicial elections, a status quo that certain political groups argue is under increasing threat.

The two groups have separately submitted proposed language for their respective ballot initiatives to achieve the same goal: warding off future efforts to put party labels on campaigns for judicial candidates. However, the two campaigns are each taking their own approaches with the language they propose for the Montana Constitution to reach that objective.

Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts officially launched its campaign on Friday. The first campaign out of the chute was Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges, which submitted the paperwork in July.

That may seem like a lot of resources for a ballot initiative i

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