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Nevada AG Vows To Protect The Rights of Undocumented Immigrants In Contact With Law Enforcement

November 20, 2024 2:59 pmNovember 27, 2024 3:43 pm

Following yesterday’s announcement that Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s office “will be a bulwark” against any effort by the Trump administration “to impose unconstitutional mandates, override our system of checks and balances, or intrude upon the rights of any Nevada resident,” his office released two “Know Your Rights” documents to...

Planned Parenthood Officers File Petition To Add Abortion To Nevada Constitution

September 15, 2023 7:00 amSeptember 22, 2023 12:23 pm

Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Votes Lindsey Harmon and her “intersectional feminist” associate Briana Escamilla (she/her) created Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom PAC last month and has filed a petition to place a question on the 2024 ballot to add abortion to the Nevada constitution. The constitutional amendment would also guarantee...

Could Nevada Be The Next State To Eliminate The Ban On Taxpayer Funded Abortions?

September 1, 2023 1:40 pmSeptember 4, 2023 1:37 pm

Currently, in Nevada, Medicaid only covers abortion in the case of rape, incest or if the life of the mother is at risk. The ACLU, on behalf of the Silver State Hope Fund, filed a lawsuit on August 28 against the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services seeking to...

ACLU, Nonprofit Challenges Nevada’s Medicaid Coverage Ban for Abortion

August 30, 2023 10:58 amAugust 30, 2023 1:07 pm

The ACLU and the ACLU of Nevada has filed a lawsuit (see below) on behalf of a nonprofit, Silver State Hope Fund, claiming that the State is violating the 2022 Nevada Equal Rights Amendment by not providing taxpayer-funded abortions. The lawsuit requests the state court order the Nevada Department of...

Senator Krasner Receives Bipartisan Support for SB321

May 1, 2023 4:54 pmMay 1, 2023 4:59 pm

Republican State Senator Lisa Krasner (SD-16) will present Senate Bill 321 at a hearing tomorrow morning at 8 AM in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. SB321 ensures that the DNA of survivors of sexual assault is only used to help solve the crime of sexual assault or apprehend the perpetrator. The Senator...

ACLU Sues Nye County Over Hand Counting Process

October 5, 2022 11:27 amNovember 15, 2022 1:16 pm

The ACLU’s Nevada chapter has filed a lawsuit against Nye County , a Republican stronghold, and its interim clerk to stop the implementation of Nye’s new hand-counting process, which was approved and authorized by Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske. The process entails hand-counting all paper ballots alongside a machine tabulator....

Criminal Defense Lawyers are Cashing In on Bail Reform Legislation

December 14, 2021 12:51 pmDecember 14, 2021 12:58 pm

A series of bail and criminal reform bills was passed in the last legislative session and signed into law by Governor Steve Sisolak. Since that time, crime has skyrocketed in Clark County, Nevada. According to Las Vegas Metro Police Convention Center Command murders are up by 900 percent on and...