Although I’ve been in Montana all summer, I was unaware of this year’s contested races for the state supreme court until I read this article, linked by Howard Bashman. Montana’s Supreme Court is infamous for strikingly activist and wildly inconsistent rulings, so it would be nice to see some better jurists on the bench. According to Eugene Volokh, one of the candidates — Brian Morris, a former clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist — would fit the bill.