Montana House debates suite of judiciary bills

Effort to politicize MT judicial elections fails

Republican lawmakers' most ambitious policy proposal under the caucus's banner of "judicial reform" appears to have failed entirely at the Montana Legislature after the last standing bill carrying party labels for judicial candidates died Monday on the House floor.

Montana House debates suite of judiciary bills

From the start of the 2025 Montana legislative session, Republican leaders made an overhaul of the state judiciary one of their top priorities. On Thursday, a number of those proposed changes came up for debate in the Montana House.The House had almost 75 bills on their agenda during an all-day floor session. That included 13 that made changes to the judicial branch or to legal procedures and seven of them were proposals from the Senate Select C…