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2025年1月14日 · “That’s not a hypothetical, folks. This is what happened in Flathead County,” Smith said. A judicial ruling deemed particularly egregious by Senate Majority Leader Tom McGillvray, of Billings, was the March 2024 order striking down election laws passed by the Legislature in 2021.

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Brad Tyer EDITOR. Brad edited the Missoula Independent 2002-2007 and 2016-2018. He also did two stints as managing editor of the Texas Observer. His book “Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape” was published by Beacon Press.