{"id":96788,"date":"2025-01-16T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/knudsen-makes-pitch-why-he-shouldnt-be-suspended\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-01-16T05:01:59","modified_gmt":"2027-12-02T05:01:59","slug":"knudsen-makes-pitch-why-he-shouldnt-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/01\/16\/knudsen-makes-pitch-why-he-shouldnt-be-suspended\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Knudsen Makes Pitch Why  He Shouldn\u2019t Be Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sprawling 155-page defense  of Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, attorneys trying to stop him from being suspended from the State Bar for 90 days \u2014 and, by extension, pause his tenure as the state\u2019s top lawyer  \u2014 give a multitude of reasons  why the state\u2019s Supreme Court shouldn\u2019t punish him, including invoking the First Amendment.<br \/>\n\t  They conclude that even if Knudsen did violate<\/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":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788"}],"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=96788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96929,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions\/96929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=96788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}