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Laws would have restricted Election Day voting, college and university ID, ballot collection.

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday released a massive 125-page opinion that struck down permanently four voting laws passed by the 2021 Legislature, saying that they impermissibly got in the way of residents exercising their right to vote. The four laws, which ranged from 18-year-olds registering before Election Day to using university-issued identification, were supported […] The post Montana Supreme court rules voter restriction laws passed in ’21 unconstitutional appeared fi...

The Montana Supreme Court permanently struck down four laws passed by the 2021 Legislature saying they were unreasonable restrictions of voting rights.

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday released a massive 125-page opinion that struck down permanently four voting laws passed by the 2021 Legislature, saying that they impermissibly got in the way of residents exercising their right to vote. The four laws, which ranged from 18-year-olds registering before Election Day to using university-issued identification, were supported […] The post Montana Supreme Court rules voter restriction laws passed in 2021 are unconstitutional appeared firs...

The investigation that led to Kenneth Rowes sentencing began over four years ago with a mandatory reporter alerting authorities to his abuse.

His ruling is one of many blocking similar state bans on gender-affirming care.

The district court judge presiding during a two-year court battle over how the state allowed residents to change a birth certificate didn’t just strike down a 2021 law as unconstitutional.

District Court Judge Michael G. Moses held the state in contempt for defying his previous orders in support of trans rights.

Asia Carl Soapes, 40, raped two underage girls, one of them several times over a period of about four years. Initial charges filed against Soapes in 2021 prompted a second survivor of his abuse to speak with investigators.

Judge Michael Moses declares Senate Bill 280 unconstitutional and holds the State of Montana in contempt for not following the orders of the court and the state's Supreme Court.