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He had to register as an offender for having consensual sex in Idaho. Now, heâll reclaim his life.
Ashley Nerbovig, Idaho Capital Sun
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BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) A federal judge on Tuesday ruled a Butte man who formerly lived in Idaho would never again have to register as a sex offender in the state of Montana.
Randall Menges, 45, was convicted as an 18-year-old under Idahoâs Crime Against Nature statute after he had consensual sex with two 16-year-old boys. Idaho courts have interpreted the statute as a ban on anal and oral sex.
MT Supreme Court rejects AG request to disqualify itself in email case
Court says Legislature `manufactured a conflict
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By: Mike Dennison
and last updated 2021-05-13 10:08:32-04
HELENA â A unanimous Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Attorney General Austin Knudsen to disqualify all seven of its justices from the case involving its internal documents and alleged bias.
Justice Laurie McKinnon, writing for the high court, said the Republican-led Legislature has âmanufactured a conflictâ by issuing subpoenas to the justices, seeking the documents â and that attacking a court or judge is not sufficient grounds to force them to step down from the case.
Montana AG wants to disqualify Supreme Court from case involving itself
Court ruling on subpoenas requesting internal emails
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The Montana Supreme Court, which has been asked to disqualify itself entirely from a case involving the justices.
and last updated 2021-05-04 10:20:32-04
HELENA â In the escalating battle between leading Republicans and the Montana judiciary, Attorney General Austin Knudsen has asked that all seven justices of the Montana Supreme Court disqualify themselves from deciding the legality of legislative subpoenas seeking internal documents from the court.
Knudsen, a Republican, filed the motion late Friday, saying the justices have an inherent conflict of interest in ruling on the subpoenas, which are directed at the court, and the request to block them, brought by its top administrator.
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 emails, undercut the public s
 confidence in the integrity of the judiciary, Knudsen argued.
Montana State News Bureau Chief Holly Michels summarizes the day s news from Helena following the end of the 2021 Montana legislative session.
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich revealed this week that through his office s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, documentation given to them through discovery showed Immigration Customs and Enforcement is basically being abolished through new policy measures put forth by the Biden administration.
In a press release sent out on Wednesday, Brnovich said the obtained documents showed due to changes to ICE book-ins, also known as arrests, because of policy shifts in who would be arrested and deported from the country means they would be down at least 50 percent. What the Biden administration is calling interim guidance is really an attempt to undermine and abolish ICE through administrative acts. What the documents we ve seen thus far reveal is that there have been nearly 8,000 dangerous individuals.released into our communities, Brnovich said to Townhall.