JANUARY 23, 2025 -- Since 2006, Gavel to Gavel has tracked state-by-state legislative activity, potentially impacting state courts.
- Montana House votes to repeal law preventing political parties from contributing to judicial candidates.
- Nebraska is considering eliminating their elected clerks of the district court.
- Wyoming is considering keeping elected clerks but providing those elections would be nonpartisan.
- Montana House committee approves a bill to transfer the judicial standards commission to the attorney general for administrative purposes.
- Montana approved House bill would prohibit a judge from serving as the presiding officer of the state’s judicial disciplinary commission.
- Montana House committee approves a bill that sets “beyond a reasonable doubt” as the standard to declare some laws as unconstitutional.
- New Hampshire House considers impeachment of a judge for his ruling on a school funding case.