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Montana initiative regulating corporate election spending faces legal challenges

Montana initiative regulating corporate election spending faces legal challenges

HELENA, Mont. – The Transparent Election Initiative (TEI) advanced with a Montana supreme court lawsuit regarding how to summarize its constitutional initiative to stop corporate spending in state elections. The lawsuit is one of several legal battles in the last six months that have refined TEI’s “Montana Plan” and its

Say no to the yes-men | Mary Sheehy Moe

Here we are again — drowning in post-Citizens United swill. Every other TV commercial has this candidate touring a factory, that one standing on a mountaintop in his plaid flannel shirt, yet another firing her gun to display her Second-Amendment bona fides — or put her dog down, maybe. Every

King Charles reminds Congress that US president is subject to checks and balances | David Adler

The irony of the moment could not have been lost on members of Congress. Lawmakers convened in a historic, joint session and heard an English King, on April 28, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, invoke the majesty of Magna Carta as a stern

Trump’s nominee for the federal bench in Montana squeaks by Senate committee along party lines

President Donald Trump’s pick to become a federal judge in Montana, Kathleen “Katie” Lane, narrowly cleared her way through the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee along a party-line vote, despite the American Bar Association deeming her to be “unqualified” as a candidate. Last week, the Senate Judiciary forwarded

Whitefish settles racial profiling suit brought by Venezuelan man

Whitefish settles racial profiling suit brought by Venezuelan man

WHITEFISH — The city of Whitefish reached a settlement agreement with a man who accused police of violating his constitutional rights and racial profiling after a traffic stop resulted in his detention in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Whitefish police said they pulled over Beker Rengifo Del Castillo for a

Windy Boy resumes House campaign, calls sexual abuse allegations ‘political attacks’

Montana State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy announced on Wednesday he is unsuspending his campaign for the U.S. House and said recently publicized allegations of sexual abuse against him are “character assasination.” Last month, Montana Democratic Party Chairperson Shannon O’Brien announced she had learned of serious sexual abuse allegations

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons: Relatives fight for changes, share stories

Carissa HeavyRunner is never going to stop fighting to change the systems that allow injustice. On Tuesday afternoon on the University of Montana campus, HeavyRunner spoke for an event on Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. HeavyRunner, who is Blackfeet and Navajo, shared a story that no mother should