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- Judge JIm Crockett dismissed a separation of powers lawsuit challenging government-employed members of the legislative branch. [TNI]
- Clark County will rent space at the Las Vegas Convention Center for jury trials. [Fox5Vegas]
- What went wrong with the ballot questions for removing the Board of Regents from the Nevada Constitution? [Nevada Current]
- The Eighth Judicial District Court is accepting applications for two hearing master positions. [eighthjdcourt blog]
- Clark County hospitals are at 87% capacity—the highest point since the pandemic started. Any predictions on what Governor Sisolak is going to do next week (and what he is waiting for)? [Las Vegas Sun]
I don't think Sisolak is going to wait until the 2 weeks is up to add additional restrictions. My guess would be today or tomorrow.
The question is what will the new restrictions be? Any thoughts?
I don't think he will shut down the casinos or restaurants again, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does tighten things up (lower capacity, bigger fines, etc.). I also think he will likely follow suit and put some travel restrictions in place.
He previously followed what California did so I think he is going to close gyms, bars, strip shows and make restaurants outside dining and take out only and reduce gathering sizes.
I hope it is a complete shut down. Close immediately all schools, restaurants, bars, Casinos, nail salons, hair salons, gyms, playgrounds, travel restrictions, mandatory fines for non-mask wearers, allow Thanksgiving snitch enforcement, armed police breaking up home holiday parties, etc. Who cares about your finances, careers, freedoms and rights, as long as grandma feels safer.
Sisolak does not know what he is going to do. He has to wait until he is told by his campaign contributors and his hanger-ons tell him.
"…as long as grandma feels safer."
I wish that was the only exposure we faced.
At this point, it doesn't really matter what Governor Sisolak orders. It won't be followed. We do need severe restrictions to curb the pandemic, make Grandma feel safe, AND save lives (and in turn, families, businesses, etc).
But forcing people breeds resentment. Both Governor Sisolak and especially Donald Trump failed to unify the state and country behind a common purpose. That was the only way we were ever going to quell the pandemic before a vaccine is/was developed.
But now, people are tired. Exhausted. Drained. And, most significantly, divided. We are numb to the sheer scale of 2,000 Americans dying every day from the pandemic, which is where we will soon be.
So nobody will follow whatever it is Governor Sisolak orders. And functionally, he has no real ability to effectuate widespread enforcement.
I am doing my part, and I am dismayed by the significant number of poeple who are not only refusing to their part, but seem to go out of their way to engage in risky, dangerous behavior.
The pandemic is too frequently framed purely in terms of what should be done based on projected numbers of cases and deaths when there are also political, economic, and social factors at play. As the pandemic is not a species killer and will amount to little more than a blip on our overall population trajectory, factors other than the purely scientific are often going to win out in the cost-benefit analysis even if it is unseemly to say so under the circumstances. This reality, rather than simple resentment over being told what to do, is a large part of why so many people resist the severe measures that 11:23 seeks.
11:23 AM here.
"This reality, rather than simple resentment over being told what to do, is a large part of why so many people resist the severe measures that 11:23 seeks."
Americans have become so self-absorbed, and so solipsistic that millions of use genuinely feel wearing a mask outside our home is a "severe measure." We've gone from a nation that whooped ass on Nazi's to becoming a nation of childish whiners. Sad!
I hope this doesn't get in the way of Tyrone's $450K crack party.
3:20 here. It is indeed difficult to empathize with people who will not wear masks to protect themselves and others. Yet to call someone a "childish whiner" who will not simply swallow losing his or her livelihood under these circumstances is a stretch.
11:23 AM here.
"Yet to call someone a 'childish whiner' who will not simply swallow losing his or her livelihood under these circumstances is a stretch."
Agreed. Good thing nobody, including myself, has done that here. It's worth noting that there seems to be a substantial overlap between people who won't wear masks but complain about the way restrictions hurt businesses. Maybe if these whiney little anti-mask fuckers wore a mask, more businesses could stay open! This is the arsonist complaining about the blaze!
I think the "severe measures" we are discussing here are the shutdowns and forced closures of businesses, schools, and freedom of movement and assembly. I don't think anyone would disagree with the characterization of those restrictions as being "severe measures."
11:23, you said "[w]e do need severe restrictions to curb the pandemic." Are you now suggesting that you were only referring to the mask mandate, which we already have and you seem to contend is not actually severe?
11:23 here.
I have admittedly not been clear. The severe restrictions are VOLUNTARILY wearing a mask and not congregating. The only way those things will work is voluntary buy in. By forcing it, Governor Sisolak has triggered a reaction that may be less compliant than no mandate at all.
What went wrong wit the ballot questions for removing the Board of Regents from the Nevada Constitution?
That's easy. Ballot questions are phrased in a very confusing manner, and the explanatory material that is provided with the sample ballots just makes tings even more confusing, to the extent anyone even bothers to read such material.
That's the simple reason why ballot questions often yield surprising results.
Or people didn't want a political body controlling higher ed.
A political body currently controls higher ed. There is nothing more political than a board directly elected by voters. However you feel about the merits of the ballot question, an independent board appointed by the governor at least has one layer of separation from politics.
Except, 11:22, it doesn't. If the gov. is unhappy with the "independent" board they can scrap the whole thing and appoint those that will bend to the gov.'s will. And with each change in gov. party affiliation, the board can potentially be scrapped and replaced with new members of that affiliation. This happened in Kentucky (link below). Direct election gives voters more control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/01/kentucky-judge-blocks-governor-from-dissolving-university-of-louisville-board/
So your evidence of something happening is a judge blocking something from happening? Can Governors just overrule statutes on their own now? I thought this was a legal blog?
Check out Joe Rogan's podcast with Professor Nicholas Christakis. They discuss the Pandemic in great detail. It was enjoyable to listen two rational and calm people discuss the issue. I think everyone can use a dose of this.
There was a silent campaign to "vote no" on 1 that reached thousands of voters.
Do whatever Gina Bongiovi tells you about Quesiton 1. Gina, I hope you feel better after having the covid 19.
I’m applying for hearing master. I will issue tentatives like other jurisdictions, in order to cut down on unnecessary hearings, all write all of my own reports and recommendations the day of the hearing. I will also enforce the Rules.
And then you realize the work load makes that impossible and slowly you fall back into the same issue everyone else has.
Are "tentatives like other jurisdictions" allowed in the rules? Haha But really, you sound like a blast at parties.
Don't bother. They already know who they want to hire. They do need a few bodies to show that the appointments were "fair and impartial".
"write all of my own reports and recommendations the day of the hearing"
Good luck with that.
Are the applications public?
Craig Mueller is, in everyone's opinion besides Rodimer, a below average attorney and who apparently hates democracy. Everyone in the legal industry mocks him and is embarrassed he even had the intellect to pass the bar. Everyone in Nevada (besides DVRodi) wants you to move to a different country where they don't like democracy please. Let me guess, there's a lot of facts yet to come out?! So pathetic.
Big words for an Anonymous poster/hater. I have known Craig for many many years and while we have vehemently differed on several occasions, I have always know him to be a solid professional with balls of steel. My guess is that you hate his politics. So don't be a snowflake pussy and post from the rooftops under your actual name.
Didn't think so. Poser.