The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to weigh in on a pair of state election laws declared unconstitutional by the Montana Supreme Court early last year. The laws sought to ban same-day voter registration and paid absentee ballot collection.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up Montana Republicans’ efforts to revive two state election laws under a version of the so-called “independent state legislature” theory.  In 2023,

"I can think of no better way of ending a career of public service than serving the Democratic Party and championing the values we hold dear," Hogan wrote.

On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of the most prominent in a Republican-sponsored suite of bills that would overhaul Montana’s judicial branch.

When current Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras ran for a seat on the Montana Supreme Court in 2016, she lost by 13 points to now-retired Justice Dirk Sandefur. In her race,

President Donald Trump granted clemency to roughly 1,500 defendants accused and convicted of crimes connected to the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol Attack.

Montana’s House is has endorsed a ban on transgender people using bathrooms in public buildings that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth.

Supreme Court Rejects Republican-Backed Montana Case Based on Controversial Election Law Theory WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back an election law case out of Montana ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run ...

Opinion: Some Republicans want to change judicial elections from non-partisan to partisan because they don’t like the way judges have struck down a handful of previously passed bills as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country