Resist GOP attacks on courts and constitution
The legislative GOP misleadingly calls the 27 draft bills they passed through their partisan judiciary attack committee “judicial reform.” The news media has echoed that term in their reporting. That’s sad, because saying “reform” implies that the bills will make our judiciary better. Rather, the bills are a partisan attack designed to weaken the judiciary -- make it more partisan, less independent and substantially subservient to the GOP legislative majority.
Montana’s government and Constitution are based on our Founding Fathers’ belief in the structure of Madisonian Democracy - three separate and co-equal branches of government, including a substantially independent judiciary. A balance between these co-equal branches is necessary for government to be both productive and fair.
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