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The proponents also included Jeff Mangan, a former Democrat-appointed commissioner of political practices; former Republican Gov. Marc Racicot; and former independent candidate for Congress Gary Buchanan. They spoke to a crowd of about 800 in the Lincoln Center downtown. Mangan said all traveled “on their own dime” to speak at the event.
Organizers of the effort, dubbed The Montana Plan, said there is plenty of appetite for a ban, but getting it on the November ballot would take significant groundwork in a short timeframe. The event was hosted by the group Yellowstone Indivisible.Efforts to put the ban before voters have faced some initial hurdles. In January, the Montana Supreme Court agreed with Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s findings that the proposed constitutional initiative affected multiple parts of the state Constitution and therefore couldn’t be condensed into a single voting measure.
Judges should be elected based on their record and qualifications, not their political party. Montanans have been electing judges in non-partisan elections since 1935.
This ballot measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the party. What does this initiative Do? This initiative defends Montana’s long tradition of nonpartisan courts. Montana has been electing judges via nonpartisan elections since 1935. This measure protects our long-standing tradition of selecting judges based on the person, not the political party.
Why Now? Politicians in Helena are attempting to make judicial elections partisan. It’s time to secure our courts from the threat of political control. This measure helps ensure that judges are accountable to the citizens of Montana, not politicians, party bosses, or political donors.
U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, the Treasure State’s junior senator, has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief filed at the United States Supreme Court that argues against the common understanding of birthright citizenship, and leans heavily on case that was originally used to deny Native Americans citizenship in the nineteenth century.
Sheehy, a Republican, joined other members of Congress in the court filing that says citizenship should be based on the person or parents’ allegiance rather than where a person is born. The case is one of the most-watched legal issues before the Supreme Court as it decides whether the commonly understood practice of birthright citizenship — that is, granting citizenship to those born on United States soil regardless of the parents’ nationality — is still in line with the U.S. Constitution’s 14th amendment, which was passed in 1866 and established former slaves who were born as chattel in the South were fully citizens.
