HELENA — In Montana, there are currently three active proposals for constitutional amendments that would require state judicial elections to remain nonpartisan. At the moment, all three of them are waiting for the Montana Supreme Court to weigh in, after their backers objected to Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s handling of them.

The three proposed initiatives – all aimed at going onto the 2026 ballot – are:

Constitutional Initiative 131, sponsored by Montanans for Fair and Impartial Judges, or MFIJ , which would say Montana Supreme Court justices and state district court judges must be elected “in nonpartisan elections.”

Constitutional Initiative 132, sponsored by Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts, or MNC , which would add a section to the Montana Constitution saying, “Judicial ele

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