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Montana will go into the 2023 legislative session with a Republican governor and Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate. Our Supreme Court is still resoundingly liberal though and there is certain to be more butting heads like last session. It's like Yellowstone is becoming reality. https://www.ypradio.org/government-...supermajority-in-the-montana-legislature
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Montana is one of only a few states where the results fit logic. Except in judicial races, as usual.
The court system in Montana is elected. Trouble is, the races are "nonpartisan" and 9 out of 10, including me, have no clue as to the mindset or judicial temperament of the candidates. You know, we're not felons or ambulance chasers. The bitter reality is, however, that the Montana Trial Lawyers spend the vast majority of money spent in these races, and they have a stake in the outcome, pretty much a conflict of interest. Imagine you're a trial lawyer, not a very good one, not doing well on contingency. But you're "sympathetic" to plaintiffs, that's known among your fellow trial lawyers, so they encourage you to become a judge? Why not?!? Nice salary, no stress!
End result is the Montana bench at all levels is far, far to the left of the average Montanan, thanks to Montana Trial Lawyers' multifaceted dark money machine. I think it's CRAZY to directly elect unknowns in races controlled by a small faction of a small special interest. Far smarter to amend the Constitution to have the Gov nominate and Senate confirm, right? I mean, it KINDA works rather than being unremitting stupidity.
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Same with WV but the House and Senate are really pissed off at the Governor right now. Be an interesting session coming up next year.
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How does a state like Montana have a liberal Supreme Court? Must be garbage influx from the west coast. We are getting the same filth from New York and New Jersey. It appears that no state is immune from this disease.
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Wilkeshunter: Its simple - MOST lawyers are liberal corksuckers! Then liberal, corksucking lawyers run for judgeships and sadly many judges in Montana are corcksucking liberals. But, alas, all is NOT lost! Remember the hard work and hard earned monies we spent over the last few decades getting a few conservative Presidents elected - they nominated the somewhat rare conservatives to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Currently there are 5 or 6 conservative leaning United States Supreme Court Justices "riding herd" on ALL the lower courts! THANK GOD for that "majority" in the United States Supreme Court! There is NOTHING the liberal justices in Montana can do that the current Supreme Court of the United States of America can't "un-do" (over-ride, reverse, declare un-Constitutional etc etc etc!). Politics is a mean, dirty, disgusting, frustrating, expensive "game" - BUT if YOU don't get into the "game" YOU will live by rules that other people make for YOU! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Wilkeshunter: Its simple - MOST lawyers are liberal corksuckers! Then liberal, corksucking lawyers run for judgeships and sadly many judges in Montana are corcksucking liberals. But, alas, all is NOT lost! Remember the hard work and hard earned monies we spent over the last few decades getting a few conservative Presidents elected - they nominated the somewhat rare conservatives to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Currently there are 5 or 6 conservative leaning United States Supreme Court Justices "riding herd" on ALL the lower courts! THANK GOD for that "majority" in the United States Supreme Court! There is NOTHING the liberal justices in Montana can do that the current Supreme Court of the United States of America can't "un-do" (over-ride, reverse, declare un-Constitutional etc etc etc!). Politics is a mean, dirty, disgusting, frustrating, expensive "game" - BUT if YOU don't get into the "game" YOU will live by rules that other people make for YOU! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy Hell of a way to get a country to function. Do you think the constitution was drafted to insure one party rule?
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Montana is one of only a few states where the results fit logic. Except in judicial races, as usual.
The court system in Montana is elected. Trouble is, the races are "nonpartisan" and 9 out of 10, including me, have no clue as to the mindset or judicial temperament of the candidates. You know, we're not felons or ambulance chasers. The bitter reality is, however, that the Montana Trial Lawyers spend the vast majority of money spent in these races, and they have a stake in the outcome, pretty much a conflict of interest. Imagine you're a trial lawyer, not a very good one, not doing well on contingency. But you're "sympathetic" to plaintiffs, that's known among your fellow trial lawyers, so they encourage you to become a judge? Why not?!? Nice salary, no stress!
End result is the Montana bench at all levels is far, far to the left of the average Montanan, thanks to Montana Trial Lawyers' multifaceted dark money machine. I think it's CRAZY to directly elect unknowns in races controlled by a small faction of a small special interest. Far smarter to amend the Constitution to have the Gov nominate and Senate confirm, right? I mean, it KINDA works rather than being unremitting stupidity. Me too, very tough to tell which justice candidates to vote for especially in primaries. I knew not to vote for Gustafson because the Montana chamber of commerce gave her the lowest rating of all justices for being anti business. The last session the Justices went apeshit when the Legislature got hold of their emails that showed the justices colluding against some bills that hadn't even became law yet as well as bashing the Republican governor and legislature in general. https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-p...ks-again-to-block-gop-subpoena-on-emails
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