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      <title>Supreme Court candidates differ on partisanship, constitutional interpretation</title>
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      <description>Two judges from the same court are competing for a seat on the Montana Supreme Court. The justices spoke to MTPR's Clayton Murphy about partisanship, restraint and what they would bring to the bench.</description>
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      <title>'Montana Plan' ballot initiative aims to end dark money spending in Montana </title>
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      <description>Elections have consistently broken spending records in the state in recent years, largely due to corporate money. A ballot measure known as the Montana Plan aims to eliminate that kind of spending in Montana, sidestepping a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That would make the state a national legal test case.</description>
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