One of the reasons the framers of Nevada’s Constitution included a separation-of-powers clause was to avoid the creation of a super-class of elite rulers, passing laws that applied to the masses but not to them.
Steve Sebelius
The thing about Yucca Mountain is the momentum.
Perhaps a bill that said, “North Las Vegas Constable Robert Eliason doesn’t have to follow the law,” would have been too obvious.
LOS ANGELES – Albany Law School Professor Stephen E. Gottlieb has devoted himself to studying the political science behind why democracies fail.
I’ve foolishly lost a few bets trying to predict the outcome of Nevada court decisions. That’s what makes me nervous about the lawsuit that accuses state Sen. Heidi Gansert of violating the state constitution’s separation of powers clause.
LOS ANGELES – Even in the deepest of the deep-blue states, things are different in the Donald Trump era.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller may support some of the programs and services provided by Planned Parenthood, but he opposes federal funding for the group because it provides abortions.
In most law schools, students study the laws, court cases arising from them, and various precedents that have modified the statutes over time.
When President Donald Trump declared 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 general election, he was widely ridiculed.
CARSON CITY — So we can elect judges, but we can’t recall them?
CARSON CITY — One of the mysteries of the 2017 session is why majority Democrats are introducing bills that would eliminate, roll back or modify some of the education reforms passed in 2015, when Republicans were in charge.
CARSON CITY — What is education for?
CARSON CITY — Could this finally be the year that the most common-sense campaign finance reform becomes law?
What if they held an election and nobody came?
It was probably inevitable we would end up here, with the scrapping of a Senate rule that lowers the threshold to end debate over a Supreme Court nominee from 60 votes to a simple majority.
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