Following a lawsuit filed by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a federal judge has blocked parts of President Biden's immigration policy that drastically tied the hands of immigration officers and coincided with a drastic decrease in the number of deportations. [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today the launch of the inaugural Montana Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest for elementary school students across Montana. The contest – a partnership between the Attorney General’s Office, Montana Highway Patrol, and the [...]

Lloyd Barrus will be sentenced to Montana State Prison, not the Montana State Hospital, following successful arguments from Montana Department of Justice attorneys. Barrus was found guilty in September of three counts of deliberate homicide by accountability and two counts [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today the appointment of Dirk Johnson as state fire marshal and Dr. Walter Kemp as Montana’s chief medical examiner. Both roles are vital to the Department of Justice’s mission to uphold public [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Knudsen joined other attorneys general in urging DirecTV to encourage, not restrict, viewpoint diversity in the media, and renew their contract with One America News Network (OAN). “You cited a ‘routine internal review’ as the basis [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is encouraging Montanans to be on high-alert for scammers trying to take advantage of them during tax season. The Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) has received 44 calls related to tax [...]

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is continuing to fight President Biden’s mask and vaccine mandates. He joined other state attorneys general today in calling on the Biden administration to drop its forced masking of kids in Head Start programs and [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is encouraging Montanans donating to relief efforts in Ukraine to take precautions to ensure they support legitimate charities. It is very likely that scammers will set up fake operations to take advantage of those [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is warning Montanans of three common website-based scams – including rental, pet, and ammunition scams – during National Consumer Protection Week which runs from March 6-12. “Always be on high alert for scammers trying [...]

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a 14-state effort to force President Joe Biden and his administration to turn over records related to the administration’s schemes to prevent parents from speaking out against leftist indoctrination in public schools. The lawsuit [...]