Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is continuing to fight the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “unprecedented masking mandate regulating every breath of millions of Americans." The CDC issued the mandate days after President Biden’s inauguration. [...]
HELENA – In response to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) final decision today granting the American Prairie Reserve a permit change to allow bison grazing in Phillips County, Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: “After shutting [...]
HELENA– Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 16 other state attorneys general joined a lawsuit today against the Biden administration’s rules that threaten the long-held American tradition of private firearms assembly and put the livelihood of thousands of Americans at risk. [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 21 other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit today against the Biden administration’s new guidance that threatens to withhold federal nutritional assistance for schools and programs that receive federal nutritional assistance. In [...]
HELENA – As a result of a lawsuit brought by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and other state attorneys general, the U.S. Supreme Court has limited the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue sweeping dictates that [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called on federal courts promote responsible energy production on federal land by stopping manipulative abuses of procedure environmental standards. In an amicus brief filed today in the United States Court of Appeals [...]
In response to today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: “The Supreme Court returned the issue of abortion to where it belongs: the People. Now it’s time for the state [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 17 other state attorneys general are calling on the Biden administration to back off the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule issued today demolishing protections for women contained in federal law and [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 14 other state attorneys general in a letter today urged the U.S. Senate to reject Steven Dettelbach’s confirmation as director of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives [...]
HELENA -- A federal judge granted Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s request for a preliminary injunction in his case with other state attorneys general to prevent the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 immigration restrictions in place. “Border Patrol agents [...]
