Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 27 states Tuesday in defending American firearms manufacturers against attempts to hold the companies liable for gun violence in Mexico. If a lower court’s ruling is allowed to stand, [...]
HELENA – The Montana Board of Land Commissioners unanimously approved Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s motion to remove the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s decision-making authority over private water rights at the Board’s meeting today. Following Monday’s vote, the DNRC [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced Jeremiah Sifuentez, of Busby, as the winner of the third annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest, during National Police Week. Jeremiah is a fifth-grade student at Spring Creek School in Decker. In [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen recently filed four lawsuits against the Biden administration’s unlawful Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules. “President Biden has been waging war on affordable energy since the day he took office. I will continue to [...]
HELENA – A Lake County man was sentenced Friday to 60 years in Montana State Prison with 30 years suspended and must pay over $1.2 million in restitution for two arson charges including the Boulder 2700 fire that destroyed homes, [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 21 other state attorneys general in sending a letter to President Biden in opposition to World Health Organization (WHO) agreements that would give the organization unprecedented and unconstitutional powers [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement on Fentanyl Awareness Day warning Montanans of the dangerous drug: “While the data proves that our drug task forces are doing a great job getting fentanyl off the street, they [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in observance of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day: “As a former prosecutor in Roosevelt County and now as attorney general, I have seen firsthand the impact the missing [...]
HELENA – A Three Forks man was found guilty Thursday in Gallatin County District Court on one count of deliberate homicide, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced. Zachary Eugene Norman, 26, was found guilty on one count of deliberate homicide with [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s unconstitutional attack on American’s right to keep and bear arms which threatens to criminalize law-abiding citizens for selling [...]