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Probably worth noting that your wife, Emily Jones, has never won a case of significance yet collects $10k a month working 90 hours a month for her law school "friend" Austin Knudsen in a highly unethical arrangement! Thank her for losing so much!
#mtpol
@hollykmichels
Probably worth noting that the Judge issuing the order had a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood while serving a Dem legislator.
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Troy Downing beat his ex-wife and then fled from California to Montana to live in his vacation home in Big Sky and avoid paying child support. Everyone is focusing on his lying on his hunting license applications, but the criminal conduct goes *much* deeper.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Montana State Auditor Troy Downing announced early Wednesday he has joined the race for the U.S. House seat currently held by Matt Rosendale.
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Austin Knudsen bragging this is the 36th time he's sued Biden is so funny given the Montana AG has been lead counsel on 0 of these cases and he's never won a case in federal court in his life. He's literally the paste-eating kid not helping with the group project.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Montana's AG and 20 other GOP state AGs sued the Biden administration Thursday in an attempt to block a recently finalized federal rule that requires states to set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in their states.
#mtpol
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@HertzRep
Actually the MTSC said that giving whiny pissbaby Senators a Heckler's Veto unlawfully disenfranchises the voters who elected their MTSC panel. I'm paraphrasing, but just a little
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TikTok bringing out the big (expensive) guns as lead counsel to sue Montana, retaining the same D.C.-based white-shoe data privacy and digital regulation firm it did in 2020 when it successfully sued the Trump Administration. Good luck, Knudsen!
#mtpol
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It's actually very simple! Each time we defeat one of your laws in Court, the State pays us between $500,000 and $1,500,000 in attorney's fees. You keep passing unconstitutional laws, we keep getting richer and can plow some of that money back into more lawsuits!
#mtpol
#mtnews
@DarrellEhrlick
Darrell so much misinformation here. 75% plus of these bills never had a legal note from legislative staff. Only a handful of the lawsuits have worked through the courts. The real story here is where is all the dark money coming from to fund these lawsuits.
#mtpol
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Raph Graybill and Planned Parenthood have successfully permanently enjoined three abortion laws from the 2021 session after 3 years of litigation. HB136 is the 20-week abortion ban, HB140 is the mandatory fetal ultrasound law, and HB171 is the ban on telemedicine abortions
#mtpol
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Another overpaid, incompetent Minnesotan Republican sent packing from Greg Gianforte's Montana. At some point the number of out-of-state officials he's hired and lost becomes both an indictment of his leadership and the quality of Montana GOP applicants.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Montana Commissioner of Labor & Industry resigns following alleged DUI
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@SheehyforMT
@washingtonpost
Some of us take our oaths seriously and don't lie to federal law enforcement officers and so never have to deal with this. Something to consider!
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The worst AG in Montana history can't stop breaking the law and then admitting it? Like come on you goober, you're such a bad lawyer that you confessed publicly to breaking the law? Sucks for Logan Olson who went along with this scheme and had this doofus blow it
#mtpol
#mtnews
AG Austin Knudsen tells supporters he asked a young man to run against him because a primary opponent means he can raise more money — but recruiting an opponent just to raise $ might be a campaign violation. By
@DarrellEhrlick
:
#mtnews
#mtleg
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The State's climate denier expert (who is not a scientist, but an economist) Terry Anderson is getting roasted here. Got caught fudging numbers throughout the case. Not shocking for a former tobacco lobbyist, but bad for the AG's Office.
#mtnews
#mtpol
#HeldVMontana
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@Wolf8Wolf
Always has been. It's a Libertarian state that had a Dem Gov during COVID who got blamed for our pretty weak lockdowns by moderates. We're so back.
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WE GOT ANOTHER LIVE ONE! This time Department of Labor and Industry hired
@Mike__Hopkins
R-Missoula, to be the head of the Job Service. Weird that they didn't see fit to make a big announcement about it! Must be nice to get favors from your Administration friends
#mtpol
#mtnews
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Sheehy saying this in Glasgow, where Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital is a huge economic engine for the community and the only major medical facility in NE MT, just shows how clueless he is. Healthcare deserts are a huge problem, and FMDH is an absolutely crucial facility.
#mtpol
🟡 SCOOP: Tim Sheehy, the frontrunner for Montana’s GOP Senate nomination, recently told a group of voters that the U.S. needs “to return healthcare to pure privatization,”
@kadiagoba
reports.
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Tell Austin Knudsen to stop asking for 30-60 day extension on every single brief then, and to stop appealing every single interlocutory ruling to the Supremes (which he loses 100% of the time) in a temper tantrum. It's your own fault, GOP.
#mtpol
#mtleg
#mtnews
"By my staff’s count, there have been 33 lawsuits over 27 different bills from the 2021 legislative session and 23 lawsuits over 20 bills from the 2023 session as of mid-December. Only 8 of those 56 total lawsuits (14%) have been resolved to date."
#mtpol
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To be fair, nothing says "The Montana Republican Party" like getting into a drunk hit-and-run in your Mercedes you bought when you moved here in 2021, and then belligerently refusing to comply and trying to run from the police.
#mtpol
#mtnews
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Gustafson/McKinnon also have a short concurrence, arguing that the test should be Strict Scrutiny not Intermediate Scrutiny (the laws obviously fail both). Baker concurs on all except dissents as to the 18-year-old voter reg requirement and would hold that is constitutional
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I hope Elsie enjoyed spending a million dollars of her own money this race licking Trump's boots just to have him endorse Downing the day before the primary. But at least the Montana GOP Grifting Establishment got paid first!
#mtpol
#mtnews
Thank you, President
@realDonaldTrump
! It is an honor to receive your endorsement.
Fighting together, we're going to take our country back from the woke left, and we're going to make America great again!
#MAGA
#Trump
#MT02
#MTPol
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Quick Breakdown:
HB 506 (17 year olds who will be 18 on election day can't get absentee ballots): 6-1 with Baker dissenting
HB 176 (no Same-day voter reg), HB 530 (Banning paid ballot collectors), and SB 169 (no student IDs for voting): 5-2 with Sandefur/Rice dissenting
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I love this part, where Republicans start passing laws "outlawing" climate change. Good luck, let us know what the snowpack thinks of your legislation, and how you plan to make a Court enforce this!
@RepRyanZinke
@hswift
#mtpol
#mtnews
Zinke introduces bill to ‘fill’ Flathead Lake after summer of low water.
As the depth of Flathead Lake fell this summer, managers blamed climate change while others criticized slow bureaucracy.
#mtnews
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Did he talk about being the least-effective AG in Montana history, and how he lost an entire staff of the most qualified government lawyers in the West because Tim Fox's staff wasn't going to work for a narcissistic intellectual dwarf?
#mtpol
I’ve been counting down the days and it’s finally here… the boss joins
@RuthlessPodcast
!
#mtpol
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So anyone want to talk about how Jason Ellsworth no-bid hired his domestic violence defense attorney to write the State's Amicus Brief for a re-hearing in the Attorney's Fees case they just lost 5-2 at MTSC? Maybe he should hire a civil lawyer who didn't move here in 2022?
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If
@MTAGKnudsen
actually believed ESG investing was unlawful or unethical, he'd be investigating the fact that Tim Sheehy made $160,000,000 from a Montana taxpayer-funded ESG, the largest ESG payment in Montana history.
#mtpol
#mtsen
#mtnews
ESG, which means Environmental, Social, and Governance, is "kind of a nonsense term," says Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen.
Where did it come from? "Liberals not being able to pass their agenda in Congress and the state legislatures."
WATCH |
@MTAGKnudsen
#mtpol
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Guess we found out who leaked the Attorney General's Office's culture report that said everyone is depressed about the toxic culture and having an incompetent lawbreaker as their Chief Law Enforcement Officer! The HiPo Union will crush Knudsen as they always do.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Complaint: DOJ’s Montana Highway Patrol fired trooper in retaliation
@daily_montanan
@KeilaSzpaller
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Stop falling for the red herring about the weird teenaged MAGA kid (Rosendale is not a pedo); if you want to uncover the real scandal that Daines was threatening to leak about Rosie, you should start here and then look up how much his "personal scheduler" now makes in DC
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@MTJakeEaton
@raphgraybill
Hey buddy, can you remind us what Emily's record against Raph currently stands at? Seems to me he's at a couple dozen wins to zero losses over her at the moment. If anyone doesn't understand the first thing about practicing law, it's your wife lmao
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Gianforte attacked the feds earlier this week, but today admits that his administration wasted an entire week during this "crisis" because nobody knew they had to file a formal request before the TMT could do anything. Lawyers too busy elsewhere?
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NEW: Austin Knudsen quietly giving up on the corner crossing case he decided to prosecute just weeks ago in the face of overwhelming backlash from outdoorsmen (and his campaign announcement this week). Very brave, many principles.
#mtpol
#mtnews
Townsend hunter's trespass charge dropped by state attorney general's office | Tap on the picture to learn more 🔽
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Sheehy continues to be vexed in his campaign by the existence of federal filings and disclosures that publicly reveal he's a liar, over and over... Guarantee he had no idea PERC filed an IRS report with his name as a board member so he thought he could lie about it
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Since this is the new whining that the Party Who Cried Wolf is going with, some info: The AG only needs to be served in personal capacity cases or constitutional challenges. And besides that, the AG and SoS got served yesterday *anyway* (SoS was served twice lol)
#mtpol
#mtnews
How embarrassing for
@raphgraybill
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During Ellsworth's sham committee hearing, we found out that many GOPers actually believe that foreign exchange students can vote in American elections in Bozeman/Missoula/Butte, despite that obviously being absurd and untrue. The low-intellect party strikes again
#mtpol
#mtnews
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Oh look, it's the Party Who Cried Wolf, crying wolf once again! Sorry doofuses, you literally amended this law in 2023 and didn't do anything about the part that allows MTSC to write their own statement, especially since ordering the AG to write *another* one was pointless
#mtpol
🚨 The Supreme Court is directly getting involved in writing Legislation. This order by the Supreme is illegitimate and needs to be ignored by the other branches of government.
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The juiciest parts: Raph's asking MTSC to order Jacobsen to send the form immediately so signature-gathering can begin (and certify its own form if she wont), to declare there can be no Legislative Review of CI14, and retain jurisdiction of the process for contempt
#mtpol
#mtnews
Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights said in a Supreme Court filing this morning they want clarity on what's supposed to happen with their ballot initiative by the end of the day today.
@daily_montanan
#mtpol
#mtleg
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For anyone in
#mtpol
who still thinks there's any chance the
#mtleg
anti-trans bills survive, an absolutely brutal asskicking handed down to the Huckabee-Sanders administration in Arkansas from a fairly conservative Court.
HUGE: Arkansas loses lawsuit defending its ban on gender-affirming care for minors "on all claims."
"Act 626 is unconstitutional. ... Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment in their favor on all claims. The State is permanently enjoined from enforcing Act 626."
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Is Elsie Arntzen refusing to comply with stupid laws her own party passed because they hurt her election chances? HB 403 requires she increases teacher license fees to fully-fund OPI's teacher licensing program. She's refusing and leaving a $371,589 deficit in the program.
#mtpol
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