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Lucey Loses Effort to Boot Opponent from Ballot

April 20, 2022 10:54 amApril 29, 2022 4:29 am

UPDATE (12 pm 4-20-22): This story has been updated to include comment from Commissioner Lucey. Judge David Hardy ruled yesterday that Mike Clark can remain on the ballot for June’s primary in the race for the Republican nomination for District 2, which includes south Reno and Washoe Valley. Press play...

Judge Rules To Remove Tax Hike Petitions From 2022 Ballot

March 18, 2022 2:25 pm

Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson has ordered two teacher union-backed tax initiatives be removed from the 2022 ballot, reversing Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s decision to move them forward. As reported by The Globe, The Clark County Education Association, took to the streets during a pandemic shutdown and surprisingly...

Exclusive: Sigal Chattah Files Motion To Intervene on Behalf of Repair The Vote PAC

March 1, 2022 3:34 pm

Sigal Chattah, Republican candidate for Attorney General, has filed a motion to intervene (see below) on behalf of Repair the Vote PAC in response to two lawsuits filed by The Elias Law Group on behalf of Democratic activists Emily Persaud-Zamora and Eric Jeng. The plaintiffs primarily allege that the ballot...

Clinton Law Firm Files Suits to Stop Election Integrity Ballot Initiatives

March 1, 2022 7:31 amMarch 8, 2022 3:01 pm

On January 28, 2022, David G. Gibbs, Executive Director of the Repair the Vote political action committee, filed two ballot petitions to appear on the ballot in the upcoming November election if enough signatures are collected for qualification. The first petition is a proposed constitutional amendment that will require each person...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Notches $3.3 Million in Q4

January 10, 2022 5:03 pmJanuary 11, 2022 9:32 am

Today, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s office reported her reelection campaign had raised an impressive $3.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 and now has $10.4 million cash on hand. According to Open Secrets, Cortez Masto received almost 4/5 of her donations from out-of-state donors in the first three months of...

CCSD Files Motion Against Parents on Mask Mandate Case

January 6, 2022 11:26 amJanuary 11, 2022 9:36 am

Following the mask mandate imposed on Nevada public school children by Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the Clark County School District (CCSD), parents filed a lawsuit in federal court in August 2021 seeking an injunction and damages. CCSD parents Monica Branch-Noto and Tiffany Paulson filed the lawsuit claiming civil rights...

From Lactating Rooms to Mail-In Voting. New Nevada Laws Take Effect in 2022

January 3, 2022 7:24 pmJanuary 4, 2022 7:35 am

As reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal (RJ): “A ban on the sale or possession of untraceable weapons heads a list of laws passed last session that take effect with the new year. Part of the weapons law, passed as Assembly Bill 286 in the spring, was struck down earlier in...