Politics has no place in the courtroom

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen was called to account for multiple, egregious violations of the rules that govern all Montana lawyers. Unimaginable as it seems, Montana’s attorney general brazenly disobeyed a direct, final order of the Montana Supreme Court, and he did so knowingly.

Knudsen continued to defy that order for nearly one full year, while publicly calling judges liars who engage in misconduct. In essence, Knudsen’s position is that he alone, among all Montana lawyers, is special; that his pledge to adhere to the Rules of Professional Conduct was somehow less binding than all the other lawyers in the state who swore the same pledge. 

He has denied none of what he is accused of and if any other lawyer had engaged in similar despicable conduct they would have been summarily disbarred.