11th District Court judges Amy Eddy and Dan Wilson are competing for the state Supreme Court in an unusual race between two judges from the same court. But more interesting than the commonality of the candidates’ current jobs is the politicized flavor of the nominally nonpartisan race. Adding to the race’s ideological dynamic, the campaigns’ partisan overtones are playing out as Montanans will consider on the same November ballot a constitutional initiative — CI-132 — that would require judicial races in Montana to remain nonpartisan, as they have been for decades.
