Montana Supreme Court Justice Pays Traffic Fine; Courthouse Descends Into Existential Crisis
A Montana Supreme Court justice quietly paid a fine for a misdemeanor traffic violation this week, triggering what legal scholars are calling the state’s first “institutional irony event” since a fire marshal’s office failed a safety inspection in 2014.
Justice Marjorie Ashworth, who has spent 18 years interpreting the finer points of Montana law from the state’s highest bench, was cited for a traffic offense the details of which remain mercifully mundane.