Department of Justice Press Releases
Attorney General Knudsen asks Legislature for indoor firing range at Montana Law Enforcement Academy
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen testified today in the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Long-Range Planning in support of a capital investment project that, if approved by the Montana Legislature, will provide funding for an indoor firing range at the [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in defending President Donald J. Trump’s executive order that protects the value of American citizenship and closes a birthright citizenship loophole that incentivizes illegal immigration. In [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in defending a religious organization’s broad authority to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs to accomplish the organization’s mission and goals. In the case [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is reminding Montanans to stay vigilant and on the lookout for bad actors trying take advantage of them as the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) fielded 900 scam complaints, over 1,000 [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 24 state attorneys general in asking the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court’s decision that would allow a convicted murderer in Indiana to receive a [...]
HELENA – The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) commissioned four new troopers at a graduation ceremony in Helena Wednesday. MHP Colonel Kurt Sager addressed the new troopers prior to their badge pinning. Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Cory Swanson administered their [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today Montana is likely to receive over $16 million dollars from a settlement in principle with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, Purdue’s owners, for the role they played in creating the opioid [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement congratulating President Donald J. Trump on his inauguration: “Today marks a new day in America. President Trump is the leader our country needs to make our country great and [...]
HELENA - Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement after TikTok reinstated service to users Sunday, January 19. Congress approved a ban on TikTok last year and the United States Supreme Court affirmed the ban Friday. “We know the [...]
HELENA – The United States Supreme Court today upheld the law banning TikTok in the United States unless the Chinese-owned parent company, Bytedance, sells its stake in the app by Sunday. In response, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen released the following [...]