The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that a referendum asking voters if the court’s justices should be elected in geographical districts instead of statewide on the upcoming Nov. 8 ballot would violate the state constitution.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican, blasted the 5–2 ruling.
“Opinions from the Montana Supreme Court have become little more than the rubberstamping of Democrat Party policies with a thin veneer of poor, tortured judicial reasoning,” Knudsen said in a statement.
“This is perhaps their most shameful and self-serving ruling yet. In order to protect their own jobs,” the five justices in the majority “deprived every Montanan of their right to decide how we elect Supreme Court justices,” Knudsen said….