Letters to the Editor

Montana courts are out of control

It seems like every day I open the newspaper and read a new decision issued by a Montana court. I'm not a lawyer, but it's becoming apparent to me that our courts are increasingly out of control.

There have been many questionable decisions issued by our courts in recent years. One decision, however—Forward Montana v. State of Montana—is so bad that even two of the seven Montana Supreme Court justices noted that the Court had veered from the constitution.

There are three separate branches in our system of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judi...