Election 2024
Senate Dems pass over assemblywoman, endorse NSHE regent to join their ranks
The Nevada Senate Democratic Caucus endorsed Michelee “Shelly” Cruz-Crawford, a first-term Nevada System of Higher Education Regent, over Assemblywoman Clara Thomas, in the Democratic primary for Senate District 1. In an interview with Nevada Current, Thomas attributed the party caucus’s decision to back a regent instead of a fellow state legislator to Thomas’s opposition to […]
Two seats on Henderson Justice Court in play for primary election
An open seat on the Henderson Justice Court has attracted half a dozen attorneys, including several who previously ran for the position, while in another department, a candidate appointed to the bench late last year faces a lone challenger. Six candidates are vying to fill the vacancy in Henderson Justice Court Dept. 1, resulting from […]
Harris warns a second Trump term would endanger abortion rights in Nevada
Vice President Kamala Harris urged Nevadans to deny Donald Trump a second term in order to protect access to abortion and birth control via the ballot box in November. Harris’s visit to Las Vegas Monday follows a decision by the Arizona Supreme Court last week to reinstate a Civil War-era law banning all abortions, except […]
Trump’s repeated escapes from political damage to be tested in NYC trial
Donald Trump on Monday in a New York City courtroom will make history as the first former U.S. president to stand trial in criminal proceedings. And it raises new issues for the presumptive Republican nominee for president in November, even as he builds a political brand that so far has seemed immune from accusations of […]
It’s time to make our primary elections make sense
It’s primary season in Nevada, and once again our state’s complicated mixture of open and closed primaries is on full display. Candidates for city councils are running in nonpartisan open primaries, while races for county commission and state legislature are closed, partisan elections. Caught in the confusion are now the largest group of voters in […]
Brown reportedly went to Mar-a-Lago seeking Trump’s endorsement
Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown went to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week to seek Trump’s endorsement, CNN reported Tuesday. Brown, who lost the 2022 Nevada Senate Republican primary to Adam Laxalt, has been presumed the frontrunner in the race for the 2024 nomination, in large part because of early backing […]
Abortions are banned in Arizona after the Supreme Court upholds an 1864 law
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled to make abortion largely illegal in the Grand Canyon State, reinstating a 160-year-old law that forbids all procedures except those to save a woman’s life. Justice John R. Lopez IV, writing for the court in a 4-2 split decision, said that a 2022 law allowing abortions up to 15 weeks […]
Trump immunity claim a ‘radical’ departure from democracy, special counsel Jack Smith says
Donald Trump’s view of absolute immunity for actions he took as president would radically change U.S. democracy and give presidents unprecedented power akin to monarchs rather than elected leaders, U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith wrote in a reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday. Smith’s 66-page brief, answering Trump’s argument to […]
Trump backpedals on support for national ban, says states will decide abortion rights
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced a shift in his views on abortion laws Monday, releasing a video advocating for state legislatures to make those decisions, not Congress — and was immediately met with strong criticism from an influential anti-abortion group that said it should remain a national debate. “My view is now […]
Clark County School Board attracts a crowd of candidates
It is a time of transition for the Clark County School District and its school board, with a new top leader and several new trustees expected to be decided this year. The Clark County School Board technically oversees just one employee, the superintendent, who they hire (and sometimes fire and sometimes rehire). CCSD is currently […]
Israel-Hamas war sets progressive and young voters on collision course with White House
Joe Biden has a problem. Seven months ahead of the presidential election, some progressives, young voters and Muslim American voters are showing serious reservations about the Democrat’s reelection campaign as his administration backs Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “For some of those people — maybe a critical number — what’s happening in […]
Nevada’s ballot will have one less choice in November after No Labels finds no candidate
Though initially qualifying to be on Nevada’s 2024 general election ballot, the national group No Labels won’t be including a third party candidate in the state after all. In fact, no state will have a No Labels candidate for its proposed third party “unity ticket” after the group recently announced it failed to find a […]