Two groups leading efforts to ensure that Montana’s judicial elections, both at the local and Supreme Court level, remain nonpartisan have filed a motion with the Montana Supreme Court saying that Attorney General Austin Knudsen has rewritten the ballot language of a proposal his office had already determined met the state’s legal requirements, and alleging that Knudsen has confused the issue intentionally in order to sabotage it.

Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges and Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts, each of which have sponsored their own versions of nonpartisan judiciary amendments, have joined together in a legal challenge for Constitutional Initiative 131, which would add just three words to the state’s constitution. The proposed amendment would make it so that the state’s Const

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