Micah Drew
(Daily Montanan) Barely a month after the 2025 Legislature, multiple organizations began efforts to put nonpartisan judicial elections in Montana’s Constitution.
The groups, which eventually folded together to bring a unified nonpartisan judicial initiative to November’s ballots, were responding to a push by conservative Republicans in the state Legislature, as well as Gov. Greg Gianforte, to make elections for district and supreme court justices partisan by having district judge and supreme court justice candidates state their political parties in elections.”
Eight states in the U.S. elect Supreme Court justices in partisan elections, and nine do so for at least one lower
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