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HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors will remain temporarily blocked, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, after justices agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state's constitutional right to privacy.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A state judge in Montana heard arguments Thursday over policies that block transgender people from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates and driver's licenses.
At least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural Colorado county and then sent in with fraudulent votes, three of which slipped past county election officials and were counted in next month's general election, state officials said Thursday.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A state judicial panel is recommending that Montana's Republican attorney general be suspended from practicing law for 90 days for openly defying court orders and repeatedly attacking the integrity of justices in his defense of a law permitting the state's Republican governor to directly fill judicial vacancies.
A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
A federal judge in Utah has temporarily blocked a social media access law that leaders said was meant to protect the personal privacy of children and limit their use of such platforms, saying it is unconstitutional.
A federal judge in Utah has temporarily blocked social media access laws that leaders said were meant to protect the mental health and personal privacy of children, saying they are unconstitutional.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union plans to spend $1.3 million on campaign advertising to educate Montana voters about where state Supreme Court candidates stand on abortion and other civil rights issues with a measure constitutionally protecting protect abortion access also on the ballot.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- An initiative to ask voters if they want to protect the right to a pre-viability abortion in Montana's constitution has enough signatures to appear on the November ballot, supporters said Friday.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana's elections enforcer said he found no evidence that the state's attorney general violated campaign finance rules by inviting another Republican to run against him so he could raise more money for his reelection campaign.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge said Tuesday that the Secretary of State's Office erred in changing the rules governing whose signatures should count on petitions for three constitutional initiatives -- including one to protect abortion rights -- after officials tried to omit the signatures of inactive voters.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Two organizations that gathered voter signatures to qualify proposed constitutional amendments for the Montana ballot -- including an initiative to protect abortion rights -- have sued the secretary of state's office over changes made to the rules about whose signatures may be accepted after the signatures were gathered and while county election officials were verifying them.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Two organizations that gathered voter signatures to qualify proposed constitutional amendments for the Montana ballot have filed a lawsuit alleging that the secretary of state changed the rules about whose signatures may be accepted after the signatures were gathered and while county election officials were verifying them.