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- “Anyone should think twice before challenging me”: Wolfson, running unopposed, has a war chest. [RJ]
- Henderson officials ask judge to toss lawsuit alleging retaliation. [RJ]
- Commentary: judicial overreach. [RJ]
- A Colorado River court showdown could cost taxpayers millions. Is Nevada prepared? [RJ]
- Opinion: They want to change the definition of “water.” That’s catastrophic for Nevada. [TNI]
- Federal judge in Las Vegas orders release of convicted murderer with MS-13 ties. [8NewsNow]
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I’m a huge fan of Boulware, and I’m worried the bromance optics between him and “Mike K.” are really bad. Boulware’s face is splattered all over X, and MS13/crimmigration work is further connected to Boyd. This is not a post about the underlying case and briefing. Just the optics.
I was in Kagan’s clinic. His primary interest has always been crimmigration, not asylum seekers. Crimmigration is important. We are a country of due process. But I wouldn’t put Kagan in the category of people concerned about the typical assylum-seeker.
Colorado River Commission
– a lot like the UN, a lot of talk but not much in the way of dispositive action. Nevada has the short straw and should not expect any real relief as the other states also have legitimate needs. Time for our state to look to desalination.
Before anyone says its impractical, take note that San Diego County has been using this for years and is making 50 million gallons of drinking water per day.
How do you plan on getting 50 mm gallons of water 250 miles to Las Vegas?
You dont have to do this. If the California water users south of Las Vegas make less of a call on water, it frees up water for Nevada and other upstream users. Desaliated water can go to Mexico, Imperial Valley etc. This doesn’t work for Arizona and CAP as easily, but there are options.
If they can pump oil thousands of miles, they can pump water hundreds of miles. In fact, they do it every day as we all have in door plumbing!
The same way you get gasoline from CA to LV (and everywhere else in the US). Pipelines.
it would be practical and wise for all the states relying on the Colorado river to pitch in to build several desalinisation plants. Coupled with Fed incentives to contractors building it, it would be a wise long term investment. the less taken from Colorado the better for everybody
We live in the Era of Trump, where win-win solutions are forbidden. This plan violates President Trump’s zero-sum worldview. Maybe sometime after 2029.
Oh please stop the gratuitous deflections. These automatic knee jerk thoughtless reaction to blame everything on Trump are a waste of everyone’s time.
agreed
Well I would suggest this isn’t terribly new. To me it’s always existed but i think Newt Gingrich contract with America and his leadership style really started to accelerate playing to the base and winning as a preferred political strategy over bipartisanship.
RJ doing some favors here. He’s only unopposed because candidate filing for that office hasn’t opened yet.
Really would love a DA challenger!
Plumb out of DA’s. They’ve all been appointed to the bench by Gov. Lombardo. Best I can do is Craig Mueller.
@2:57 for the love of God, no.
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This reads as chest-thumping and vaguely threatening, not leadership. When a district attorney brags that people should “think twice” before challenging him because of his money, that’s not confidence. It’s arrogance. Elections are not meant to be intimidated out of existence by a “war chest,” and public office is not a personal stronghold to be defended with cash.
A district attorney should welcome accountability, competition, and public scrutiny. Anyone who frames democracy as something to be deterred rather than engaged reveals a troubling mindset. This kind of rhetoric is distasteful, corrosive, and exactly why entrenched power (unchecked and self-congratulatory) should concern every constituent.
“that’s not confidence. It’s arrogance.” ChatGPT.
Some of us know how to write. Others rely on chat gpt so much they think everyone else is using chat gpt.
That’s not AI. It’s composition.
Beautiful.
That’s not beauty. It’s barbarism.
That’s not barbarism. It’s kindness.
That’s not kindness. It’s knavery.
That’s not knavery. It’s nihilism.
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
When an elected official leans on money and bravado to discourage challengers, it reveals insecurity. Campaign funds are not a substitute for accountability, and warnings meant to deter participation undermine the democratic process. If anything, this is precisely the moment for someone to step up and run.
Peterson just keeps doubling-down. What is going on ??
what happened?
The Judicial Overreach article. “It is abundantly clear to everyone that Peterson’s antics don’t have a leg to stand on. … She received low marks on whether she accurately applies the law. You don’t say. … The only person who should have been kicked out of Peterson’s courtroom is Peterson.”
I’m not saying it isn’t true, but it’s a lot of dunking.
What’s going on is that we’re watching a judge who’s out of her depth and paranoid about the media exposing her lack of competence. The attempts to remove the media from her court aren’t for the victims, it’s for her. Media cases are common here and she’s making it pretty clear that this is her first time handling one. It’s just so much worse that she issues an unconstitutional order, walks it back immediately, then doubles down a week later.
You are watching the control and temperament issues about which attorneys have complained for years now be verified by the LVRJ. She is her own worst ally.
RJ taking on all the officials. Who’s next? They’ve done Ballou. they’ve done Bluth. They’ve done Peterson.
And Wolfson’s article did more harm than good.
For whatever civility issues I have with attorneys here in town, my interactions with LA counsel largely are the most unnecessarily argumentative encounters that one can have.
I second that the worst opposing counsel generally stem from LA, Texas, or New York. All big states where civility is an afterthought because nobody works with opposing counsel more than once. I have a niche practice, and I see the same faces all the time. Civility is necessary even if you can’t agree on things.
LA and San Diego County to me have just been litigation by sanction for every minor issue. Generally all my attempts to informally work through anything fall on non responsive ears. 1127 i believe to be right on point in that it is so rare to work with people more than once or twice so it allows such tactics.