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The race for Montana’s lone contested Supreme Court seat could take a partisan twist now that a federal court has allowed political parties to endorse judicial candidates. In mid-September, the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals overturned Montana’s law forbidding party endorsements in nonpartisan judicial campaigns. That means the parties are free to endorse either Missoula attorney Ed Sheehy or District Judge Laurie McKinnon whether the candidates want them to or not. McKinnon, whose 9th Judicial District stretches to include Glacier, Toole, Pon...
