A state judicial panel is recommending that Montana’s Republican attorney general be suspended from practicing law for 90 days for openly defying court orders and repeatedly attacking the integrity of justices in his defense of a law permitting the state’s Republican governor to directly fill judicial vacancies.

A Commission on Practice adjudication panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended that the Montana Supreme Court suspend Attorney General Austin Knudsen from practicing law for 90 days because of multiple rule violations he committed during his representation of the Legislature in 2021.