Senate President Matt Regier said he has “very, very serious concerns” about the contract arrangement. "The more you look at it, the deeper it's getting.”

Conservatives erupted on social media Tuesday following an exchange between Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy regarding gender identity.

On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of the most prominent in a Republican-sponsored suite of bills that would overhaul Montana’s judicial branch.

Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras reiterated the administration’s “full support” of the measure, which would force judicial candidates to declare a party for the first time in Montana since 1935.

"We did kind of prioritize what could move the needle most," Senate President Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, told reporters Tuesday.

Kalispell, doesn’t believe the tension between the courts and the state legislature should be characterized as a war between two coequal branches of government; however, he does believe that lawmakers have an obligation to check the power of the judicial system during the upcoming legislative session.

The legislative GOP misleadingly calls the 27 draft bills they passed through their partisan judiciary attack committee “judicial reform.”

Republicans in the Montana state House will likely hold the first anti-trans state legislative hearing of the year concerning House Bill 121, proposed legislation banning transgender adults from ...

Lawmakers announced judicial reform was "top of mind" when they descended on Helena weeks ago, and GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte called the Montana Supreme Court "nonpartisan in name only" in his State ...