KALISPELL, Mont.— Montana Senate President Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, released the following statement today in response to the Montana Supreme Court’s decision in the Office of Disciplinary Counsel/Commission on Practice’s attempted political persecution of Attorney General Austin Knudsen:
“The Supreme Court’s vindication of Attorney General Austin Knudsen is the right decision. The process itself was weaponized as political retaliation for the AG doing his job representing the Legislature, and I’m glad to see the Court put an end to it. We must draw a bright line for the public between true ethical violations in government and manufactured controversies like the Office of Disciplinary Counsel and Commission on Practice’s shameful political persecution of Austin Knudsen.”