Democrats emboldened by recent events delayed committee consideration of Judge Neil Gorsuch on Monday and are eyeing a filibuster against President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Nevada judges may end up deciding if juvenile sex offenders will have to register and appear in the public sex offender database.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that cities and states that protect immigrant felons from federal immigration laws may see cuts in grants from the Justice Department.
Nevada continues to make progress on testing a backlog of rape kits from Southern Nevada, with 2,456 sent for analysis and 984 of those completed, lawmakers were told Monday.
It’s Day 50 of the 2017 Legislative Session. Expect a late night, as it’s the deadline for introducing committee bills.
Experts who track campaign finance data say the reason behind big donations to political candidates at the municipal level stems from a hope that they can bend the ear of a future elected official.
An open race to represent northwest Las Vegas drew double-digit candidate interest, and the packed field includes political newcomers and well-known names.
The return of Yucca Mountain should be the clarion call that unites Nevada in demanding that the federal government give us back our land.
California Gov. Jerry Brown likened President Donald Trump to a strongman whose goal of walling off the U.S.-Mexico border conjures other infamous barriers from the past.
President Donald Trump’s effort to sell GOP lawmakers on the legislation that would replace “Obamacare” was sunk by a relatively small band of “Siberians” from within the party.
They only missed the deadline by 35 years, but Nevada lawmakers made history last week with approval of the Equal Rights Amendment, taking action nearly a half-century after Congress sent it to states for ratification.
The intensity level at the Nevada Legislature will ramp up in Week 8 as dozens of bills get hearings ahead of a looming “do or die” April deadline for passage out of committee.
Vice President Mike Pence visited Charleston, West Virginia, on Saturday, assuring a Charleston crowd that the administration is ready to get on with Trump’s “three part-agenda, jobs, jobs and jobs.”
The death penalty may be ending in Nevada. Assembly Bill 237 in the Legislature would ban capital punishment and commute the sentences of some 81 inmates on death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty stood proudly outside the 26,600-square-foot marble structure at Clark Avenue and Fourth Street on Friday, pointing to the county, state and court seals etched around the top.
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