Department of Justice Press Releases
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and nine other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for imposing an illegal vaccine mandate on federal contractors and federally contracted employees. The lawsuit takes issue with the Biden Administration’s use [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued legal guidance today on the status of the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Today’s guidance follows Attorney General Knudsen’s initial guidance issued earlier this month to help Montana workers [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued legal guidance today on the status of the Biden administration’s announced federal vaccine mandate and discrimination based on vaccine status, which is illegal in Montana. The guidance is intended to alleviate confusion resulting from [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is calling on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to scrap its rubber-stamp analysis of the American Prairie Reserve’s (APR) radical grazing change of use permit proposal aimed at fundamentally transforming northeastern Montana. In the [...]
Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in response to President Biden's announced coronavirus mandates: "Just weeks ago, the Biden administration said issuing vaccine mandates is ‘not the role of the federal government.’ That remains true today. I’m exploring [...]
Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement regarding the White House's decision to withdraw the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF): "Since the day his nomination was announced, I have [...]
Montana consumers are paying 46% more at the pump than they were one year ago Biden White House asks OPEC+ to pump more oil in bid to lower gas prices after its actions to slow American energy development Biden’s actions [...]
Attorney General Knudsen leads 18-state coalition against overreaching federal firearm accessory ban
Attorney General Austin Knudsen is again leading the charge in defense of Montanans’ right to keep and bear arms against federal overreach. Seventeen other state attorneys general signed onto Knudsen’s amicus brief filed late yesterday in the Gun Owners of [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen submitted a formal comment to the White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair (CEQ) demanding that it withdraw its two-year “delay” of the Trump administration's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) modernization and reforms. Prior [...]
HELENA - A federal judge today halted the Biden administration's moratorium on federal oil and gas leasing and drilling permits that threatened the livelihoods of rural Montana families and would have cost the state millions in lost tax revenue. The [...]
