{"id":113013,"date":"2025-10-16T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/attorney-generals-edits-to-initiatives-anger-petitioners\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:17:16","modified_gmt":"2028-04-03T05:17:16","slug":"attorney-generals-edits-to-initiatives-anger-petitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/10\/16\/attorney-generals-edits-to-initiatives-anger-petitioners\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General\u2019s Edits To Initiatives Anger Petitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second nonpartisan judicial  elections ballot initiative received the OK of Montana\u2019s attorney general Oct. 9, but with the same edits that triggered  a lawsuit against the AG last week.<br \/>\n\t  Constitutional Initiative 132 would amend the state Constitution to ensure that all judicial elections are nonpartisan.  The push follows several failed attempts by state Republican lawmakers in the 2025 Legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113216,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013\/revisions\/113216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113013"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=113013"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=113013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}