Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today appealed a Bozeman judge’s ruling that stops voters from being able to choose how they elect state Supreme Court justices. He also called on current Supreme Court justices to disqualify themselves from the case because each “has a significant...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 13 other states are suing the Biden administration over yet another unlawful immigration rule that will make the crisis at the southern border worse than it already is. The new rule violates federal laws and bypasses Congress and erodes...
Following a lawsuit brought by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and other state attorneys general, a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prevents the Biden administration from lifting the Title 42 policy that allows border officials to turn away migrants to...
In response to reports that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will extend the federal transportation mask mandate until May 3, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: “President Biden’s mask mandate should have ended long ago. It’s an arbitrary assertion...
To further support customers in the Bozeman area in response to increased demand, Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) mobile unit will be at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds for a week-long mobile licensing event April 18 – 22. MVD’s mobile unit offers service on a first come-first-served...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s rewrite of federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulations to ban so-called “ghost guns”: Assembling firearms for their own use is a tradition and right that Americans have exercised...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading a coalition of 21 other state attorneys general in defense of the Second Amendment, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rulemaking that would immediately transform hundreds of...
Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers interdicted large amounts of illegal drugs in 2021, and in the case of the dangerous opioid fentanyl, they’ve already blown past last year’s quantity in 2022, Colonel Steve Lavin announced today. Troopers found nearly 3,800 fentanyl tablets in 2021, while fentanyl...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general that today called on the Biden administration to halt its efforts to rewrite federal rules and redefine biological sex to include gender identity. The U.S. Department of Education’s intended rulemaking would...
Montana Attorney General Knudsen joined 22 other state attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to protect the gun rights of all Americans by declaring unconstitutional a California law that bans firearm magazines that are capable of holding more than...