Montana’s top lawyer fired back Wednesday at the Montana Supreme Court, sending the sitting justices a letter that accuses them of threatening lawyers on his staff, and chides them for “incorrect and inappropriate” behavior.
In a letter obtained by the Daily Montanan, Attorney General Austin Knudsen responded to a ruling last week by the high court, authored by Associate Justice Laurie McKinnon, which denied a request by Knudsen’s office to disqualify the entire court from deciding the case of Courts Administrator Beth McLaughlin’s subpoena and subsequent email releases.
