Not District Dialogue: The Montana case behind HB1027, party politics and judges

Josh Verges reports that the impetus behind removing a law forbidden political parties from endorsing judicial candidates is to avoid a lawsuit:

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Greg Sattizahn, legal counsel for Chief Justice David Gilbertson, confirms that HB1072 is a response to a Montana ruling, which said it’s unconstitutional to bar political parties from endorsing judicial candidates.

Here’s the top of a Bloomberg story on the case from September 2012: