Opinion: Let’s honor our history and secure our future by enshrining judicial independence in Montana's Constitution.

Delegates of the Montana Republican Party gathered in Helena Saturday to choose the party’s next chair – a process that took several hours and rules battles to complete.

State convention in Helena ushered in changeover in Republican party leadership, showcased ongoing divisions from Legislative session.

The complaint argues the changes to Election Day voter registration outlined in Senate Bill 490 disproportionately harm Native Americans in rural and tribal communities who already face significant barriers to voting.

Casting mailed ballots remained popular among voters in last year’s presidential election, even as President Donald Trump has tried to undercut the process through a wide-ranging executive order.

The new heads of the state GOP are inheriting a party that saw huge wins across the state, but also one that formed deep divisions at this year's legislative session.

In the lone school board primary in Spokane County, the race includes the incumbent, her former ally and a retired teacher looking to promote compromise in an increasingly divisive political atmosphere.

From 2008 to 2012, the two elections on either side of Citizens United, there was a 594% increase in independent expenditures, which went from $144 million to $1 billion.

Montana has been at the center of debates about money in politics. In 2012, the Supreme Court struck down a law banning corporations from spending money in political campaigns.

Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Susie Hedalen has been accused of driving while under the influence.

He was a hard-nosed politician but he had such a soft center,” said Sheena Rice, a friend who hired on to Williams’ staff in Washington, D.C.

State convention in Helena ushered in changeover in Republican party leadership, showcased ongoing divisions from Legislative session