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April 4, 2025, marks day 66 of the Montana legislative session.  And what a few busy weeks it has been!

Friday, March 7, marked the halfway point of the Montana legislative session, called "transmittal."

It is all-hands-on-deck in opposition to Senate Bill 114, a proposal that would require the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom across Montana.

Ella Scott, student and co-founder of her high school’s Banned Book Club, tells us what inspired her to take action and shares advice on how to combat book bans in your own school.

Read about some of the books that have most recently been banned or challenged for removal across public schools and libraries in our ‘ACLU Banned Book Club Reading List’.

In a landmark settlement, the federal government was forced to concede that there is no border exception to this First Amendment right.

The ACLU of Montana filed a brief on Monday with the Montana Supreme Court arguing that a district court’s degrading and humiliating punishment of two men who lied about serving in the U.S. military is unconstitutional.   

Montana agencies are withholding public documents possible about Keystone XL pipeline protest preparations.Today, the ACLU of Montana, Western Environmental Law Center, and the Bahr Law Offices challenged two Montana state agencies’ refusal to release public records relating to the Keystone XL Pipeline. The documents in question pertain to the government’s plans in response to protests. The ACLU is concerned that such plans may include spying on protesters, suppressing constitutionally protected free speech rights, and responding with militarized police tactics. 

Thanks to your support, we did a lot in 2018! Here are some highlights from the past year.