In Montana, there are currently three active proposals for constitutional amendments that would require state judicial elections to remain nonpartisan. At the moment, all three of them are waiting for the Montana Supreme Court to weigh in, after their backers objected to Attorney General Austin Knudsens handling of them.

The three proposed initiatives all aimed at going onto the 2026 ballot are:

The Attorney Generals Office is tasked with doing legal reviews of the language of proposed ballot initiatives and the ballot statements that voters will see. In all three of these cases, sponsors are asking the Supreme Court to step in and overturn the offices reviews.

(Watch the video for more details on the legal challenges.)

For CI-131 and CI-132, the legal issues are the same. Knudsens off

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