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recreational marijuana, and GOP priorities with social policy and tax cuts.
Those social priorities include a pair of bills about transgender youth. Senators last Tuesday indefinitely postponed consideration of
House Bill 427 from Rep. John Fuller, R-Whitefish, which would have barred doctors from providing gender-affirming surgeries to minors who have gender dysphoria. Eight Republicans joined Democrats in that vote to stop the policy moving forward. Another bill that would
bar transgender girls and women from participating in school sports is headed to the Gov. Greg Gianforte’s desk with an amendment that would void the policy if the federal government were to withhold education funding because of it.
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Power over Montana s judicial branch is at the center of a debate over the constitutionality of a new law that gives the governor more options to fill midterm vacancies on the state bench.
Senate Bill 140, which Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into law last month, eliminated the Judicial Nominating Commission, an unelected body that greatly limited the governor s nominating power by requiring that all judicial candidates be selected from a pre-approved list.
With the passage of the new bill, Gianforte can now fill vacancies, with state Senate approval, without having to select candidates that are recommended by an unelected Commission.
MT Supreme Court blocks legislative subpoenas seeking its records
Chief Justice McGrath also writes to GOP leaders
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and last updated 2021-04-16 19:23:00-04
HELENA â The Montana Supreme Court Friday blocked all subpoenas issued by the state Legislature in the past week, that are seeking internal documents from the court, and said it will rule later on whether the requests are valid.
The unanimous order puts the brakes on an escalating face-off between the high court and Republican leadership at the Legislature, as GOP leaders sought emails and other documents from the court and the judiciary to investigate whether the court has pre-judged legislation that may come before it.