Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition in calling on the Biden administration to keep a major commercial ammunition manufacturing plant open following a request by Democrat attorneys general to investigate the plant, which would halt production. [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to declare President Biden’s new Clean Air Act rule, which will reduce states' discretion on how to best [...]
HELENA – A man in the United States illegally faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to mitigated deliberate homicide for stabbing a man to death in July 2022, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Francisco [...]
LAS VEGAS – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen will participate in SHOT Show's first-ever state Attorneys General Forum next Wednesday. Along with several colleagues, he will discuss the legal landscape and what the states are fight back against the Biden [...]
HELENA — Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen asked a district court Friday to block the Biden administration’s unlawful greenhouse gas emissions rule while litigation proceeds. The rule would require states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles on its roadways [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 23 attorneys general and the Arizona Legislature Tuesday in filing an amicus brief in support of the National Rifle Association’s case against a New York state official who trampled [...]
HELENA – The Montana Department of Justice is seeking applications to fill two spots on the Tow Truck Complaint Resolution Committee. The positions available are a representative of the tow truck industry from eastern Montana and a representative of the [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen testified Wednesday at a U.S. House of Representatives impeachment hearing against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. During the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, entitled “Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in sending a comment letter Friday opposing the Biden administration’s “Business Diversity Principles” proposal which promotes illicit racial discrimination and anti-American principles. The Department of Commerce [...]
HELENA – As Human Trafficking Awareness Month begins, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is asking Montanans to learn the signs of human trafficking and report it if they see it to help the state fight the heinous crime. He also [...]