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Complaint challenges law allowing governor to appoint judges

by Associated Press
| March 17, 2021 12:00 PM

HELENA (AP) — Montana's governor has signed a bill to eliminate the Judicial Nomination Commission and allow the governor to directly fill between-election vacancies in state District Courts and the Montana Supreme Court, reversing a change made in the state's 1972 constitution and prompting an immediate legal challenge....

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