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The Montana attorney general last week filed a motion for the state Supreme Court to recuse itself from a case involving its own administrator. Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen in an April 30 filing called it an "obvious conflict of interest" for the Supreme Court to hear a case deciding if Administrator Beth McLaughlin should release emails involving the judicial branch. Hearing the case, and previously granting an emergency weekend motion by McLaughlin to quash a subpoena for her em...

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The legislative committee formed by Republicans to probe the judicial branch released a draft of its initial report Wednesday, outlining concerns raised by the GOP in recent weeks and providing a list of recommendations for the Legislature to consider.  The Select Committee on Judicial Transparency and Accountability is scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. Thursday to discuss the report and take public comment, Sen. Greg Hertz, a Republican from Polson who chairs the committee, said Wednesday.  Th...

‘A great antidote to the sadness’ at Snow Farm craft school By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 2:37 p.m. Email to a Friend A view of the campus of the Snow Farm Craft School in Williamsburg.Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe WILLIAMSBURG ­— On a Saturday in April, Thérèse Ebarb, an elder-law attorney from Long Island, bent over a potter’s wheel and coaxed a round bird feeder out of wet clay. “I’m a real beginner,” said Eba...

Chair Greg Hertz, a Republican senator from Polson, read questions into the record on Monday as the Select Committee on Judicial Transparency and Accountability got underway on its investigation into alleged misuse of state email accounts in the judicial branch, but no one was there to answer back. The committee formed last week issued a subpoena for Montana Supreme Court Administrator Beth McLaughlin to appear at 9 a.m. Monday morning to answer questions about internal polling on pending legis...

The Montana Supreme Court has blocked several subpoenas filed by legislative Republicans ordering the justices to produce internal communications about

Republican Lawmakers Escalate Challenge Over Supreme Court Communications Montana Republican legislative leaders have subpoenaed the Montana Supreme Court’s seven justices and court administrator, looking for evidence of alleged bias over bills that could be challenged in court. It is the latest development in a conflict brewing between the state’s legislative and judicial branches. The subpoenas tell the justices to produce by Monday any internal communications about pending legislation mo...

The Montana Supreme Court on Sunday put the brakes on a legislative inquiry into the state court administrator’s emails, which recent revelations have shown to contain judges’ polls on pending legislation and were deleted from the administrator’s account. A dispute over the separation of powers is developing out of a state Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of a new law signed last month expanding the governor’s appointment power over judicial vacancies.  On Mo...

The Montana Supreme Court on Sunday put the brakes on a legislative inquiry into the state court administrator’s emails, which recent revelations have shown to contain judges’ polls on pending legislation and were deleted from the administrator’s account. A dispute over the separation of powers is developing out of a state Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of a new law signed last month expanding the governor’s appointment power over judicial vacancies.  On Mo...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Keith Regier issued the subpoena for the Montana Supreme Court Administrators emails on April 8.