In response to the dismissal of the Rocking R Bar case in Gallatin County, Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: It s a positive development that Gallatin County officials have reversed course and lifted the business hour restrictions. From the beginning, the 10 o clock curfew defied commonsense, harmed small businesses, and infringed on Montanans right to earn a living. No business should have ever been prosecuted for safely serving its customers. My office will continue to protect Montanans from egregious and bellicose actions by elected and unelected officials.
Unfortunately, the parties in this case still have the expense of this litigation diluting their bank accounts for this ridiculous charge.
Montana hasn t been able to carry out an execution since a judge in 2015 stopped the state from using one drug in its lethal injection cocktail, but legislation introduced Wednesday would put the process back in motion again.
House Bill 244 would revise state law to remove language designating a specific drug in the execution process and replace it with a substance sufficient to cause death. Much of the debate in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday centered on the broad language proposed in the legislation.
The proposal on Wednesday got the endorsement of Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a former prosecutor and lawmaker, who said Montana is the only state that specifies its execution will be carried out by an ultra-fast-acting barbiturate in its lethal injection.
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A Senatorial Spat, Rocky Rollout Of COVID Orders And A Familiar Gun Debate
Montana s congressman votes as expected against impeachment, and Montana s two senators are having a very public spat. Gov. Gianforte has a rocky rollout of new orders lifting some pandemic restrictions. Attorney General Knudsen gets into a legal fight with a county attorney over local COVID-19 regulations. And university administrators keep a wary eye on a bill headed to the State Senate that would allow guns on campus.
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Sally Mauk Rob, Montana s Congressman Matt Rosendale went against the majority, including 10 fellow Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump for a second time. And Rosendale voted no, and he had this to say about that: