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Jan 14, 2025 | 
helenair.com | James Nelson
I usually refrain from criticizing opinions issued by the Montana Supreme Court (the Court). I cannot stand silent, however, in the face of the Court’s recent evisceration of Montana’s fundamental constitutional "right to know," in Article II, Section 9. Please subscribe to continue reading… James C. Nelson of Helena is a retired Montana Supreme Court justice.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | James Nelson |Liberties Law
I usually refrain from criticizing opinions issued by the Montana Supreme Court (the Court). I cannot stand silent, however in the face of the Court’s recent evisceration of Montana’s fundamental constitutional Right to Know, Article II, section 9.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | James Nelson
I usually refrain from criticizing opinions issued by the Montana Supreme Court (the Court). I cannot stand silent, however in the face of the Court’s recent evisceration of Montana’s fundamental constitutional Right to Know, Article II, section 9.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | James Nelson
My father enlisted in the Navy and served in the Naval Construction Battalion, as a Navy Seabee in the South Pacific in World War II. I enlisted in the Army, graduated from OCS, and served, though not in combat, as a tank battalion staff officer during the Viet Nam War. Our son retired as lieutenant colonel in the Army Judge Advocate General Corp after 23 years’ service, which included two war-time deployments in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
dailymontanan.com | James Nelson
Most of us have heard the story about boiling the frog. Drop a frog in boiling water, and he’ll jump right out. But, drop the frog in cool water, and then increase the temperature of the water slowly, and the frog won’t notice. Soon he’ll be cooked. That’s exactly what is happening to state courts around the country.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | James Nelson
Nelson is a retired attorney and served as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1993 through 2012. Most of us have heard the story about boiling the frog. Drop a frog in boiling water, and he’ll jump right out. But drop the frog in cool water and then increase the temperature of the water slowly, and the frog won’t notice. Soon it will be cooked. That’s exactly what is happening to state courts around the country.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | James Nelson
Most of us have heard the story about boiling the frog. Drop a frog in boiling water, and he’ll jump right out. But, drop the frog in cool water, and then increase the temperature of the water slowly, and the frog won’t notice. Soon he’ll be cooked. That’s exactly what is happening to state courts around the country.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | James Nelson
The letter dated July 29, 2024, from Jason Ellsworth, President of the Montana State Senate, on behalf of the Senate Select Committee on Judicial Oversight and Reform (the Committee), directed to the justices of the Montana Supreme Court and others, is attached to an article in the Daily Montanan. Since I have been so prominently featured in the letter, I have some things to say about this whole matter.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | James Nelson
Nelson is a retired attorney and served as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1993 through 2012. On June 10, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
dailyinterlake.com | James Nelson
In 2023, the Montana State Legislature passed a bill, signed into law by the governor, that defined sex and sexuality as being either, and only, male or female. It defined “sex” in the following manner: “In human beings, there are exactly two sexes, male and female with two corresponding gametes.” The law listed some 41 sections of the Montana Code that need to be revised based on this definition.
