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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 emails, undercut the public's  confidence in the integrity of the judiciary, Knudsen argued. Montan...

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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.  The report largely captures legislative Republicans' view on their dispute with the judicial branch, w...

‘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 Ebarb from behind a Plexiglas divider in the pottery studio at Snow Farm, the New England Craft Program...

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 legislation uncovered in a recent court challenge to a new law. Republicans have raised several concerns ...