JANUARY 30, 2025 -- Since 2006, Gavel to Gavel has tracked state-by-state legislative activity with potential impact on state courts.
Featured State - Montana
- Senate approves bill to make State bar voluntary for lawyers.
- Senate approves bill to remove the state supreme court's original jurisdiction of ballot items.
- House approves bill prohibiting judges from serving as chair of judicial standards commission. The chair must be an attorney or a non-attorney citizen appointed to the commission.
- Senate rejects bill to define "bias," "conflict of interest," "impartiality," and "open-mindedness," as it relates to judges and judicial proceedings.
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- Illinois is considering a bill to create a voluntary, public financing of election campaigns program for the judges of the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court offices.
- Nevada bill would require judges in uncontested elections to be subject to yes/no retention elections instead of not appearing on the ballot at all.