Sam Wilson Apr 1, 2022 Updated Apr 2, 2022

A federal judge in Helena has ruled that the Green Party will be on Montana ballots in 2022, following an appeals court ruling in November that nixed a portion of the state’s law setting out qualifications for minor parties.
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“The successful state court actions by the Democratic Party in the 2016 and 2020 cycles effectively destroyed the Green Party as an organization,” Quentin Rhoades, the party's lead attorney in the federal case, wrote in an email Thursday. “Their constituents had become scattered, divided, leaderless. The federal court result will give Green Party leaders time and an opportunity to put their organization back together for 2024.”
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“The successful state court actions by the Democratic Party in the 2016 and 2020 cycles effectively destroyed the Green Party as an organization,” Quentin Rhoades, the party's lead attorney in the federal case, wrote in an email Thursday. “Their constituents had become scattered, divided, leaderless. The federal court result will give Green Party leaders time and an opportunity to put their organization back together for 2024.”