We’re Suing the Judge!

By Michael Kelman Portney

Sometimes the cleanest shot is the one right in front of you. Forget the family conspiracies, the backroom whispers, the endless “he said/she said.” Forget the probate shell games and the lawyers who all graduated from the same damn building in Missoula with the same handshake and the same loyalties.

Here’s the bottom line: Judge John Parker of Cascade County held a hearing without jurisdiction. He extended an expired court order against me without ever serving me. I was living in Oregon. No service, no jurisdiction. That’s not procedure. That’s not a clerical error. That’s a constitutional violation.

Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, when a state actor violates your civil rights under color of law, you get to take it federal. And that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m suing Judge Parker in federal court — not in Montana’s captured system, but in Oregon, where the injury hit me.

This is the cleanest claim you’ll ever see:

• No service = no jurisdiction.

• No jurisdiction = no qualified immunity.

• No qualified immunity = lawsuit.

This isn’t about party politics. I’m a Democrat. But corruption doesn’t wear a party badge — it wears a robe, it wears a title, it hides behind process until someone calls bullshit. Well, I’m calling it.

Once the case is filed, discovery opens. Subpoenas go out. Emails, texts, phone logs, ex parte communications — all of it comes into the light. If there’s a conspiracy between Parker, my relatives, and the legal machine that’s been running Great Falls like a company town since my grandfather’s day, it’s going to show.

So yes, we’re suing the judge. That’s not rhetoric. That’s not theater. That’s the next move on the board.

Stay tuned.