- Quickdraw McLaw
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Election day has come and gone and where does that leave us? Well, at the moment, a bit in limbo… Because every voter in Nevada received a mail-in ballot, the number of ballots remaining to be counted is an unknown. We still have results to discuss though. You can view what the State has for results here and what Clark County has for results here. Congrats to all the winners!
In the Nevada Supreme Court, Doug Herndon defeated Ozzie Fumo. In the Court of Appeals, it looks as though Bonnie Bulla will retain her position on the bench.
In Clark County, it looks like two incumbents–Judge Richard Scotti and Judge Rob Bare–have lost their spot on the bench. It also looks like Judge Kephart will be retained. The races in Dept. 8, Dept. 21, Dept. M, Dept. U, and Dept. X seem to be the closest.
What are you seeing from these results? Are you really surprised? Did anything change? Is this election proof the system works or that it needs to change?
Aurbach and Coffing both lost? What in the literal fuck? So did Dan Gilliam?
Well, the S. Ct. and Court of Appeals will stay busy.
Yes, Aurbach, Coffing, and Gilliam lost. They are men. If they want to serve as judges, they should consider a sex change operation.
10:11 nails it. Misandry is alive and well.
Don't forget about Chief Judge Chris Lee in NLV Justice Court. He always received high ratings in Judging the Judges. He started a Veteran's Court and was well liked. He lost by almost 20% to public defender Belinda Harris. Can anyone explain that?
10:39 meet 10:27. Hi! Lee is a fine judge and that does not matter because Lee is a he. That's it.
I have a feeling that the only reason Department M is so close is because voters don't know whether Lynn Hughes is the name of a man or a woman.
This is what happens when you let the people of Commy-fornia move into NV and AZ en masse. We are now the rotten extension of that anti-male cesspool.
I'm so sorry that women have increased access to careers in the legal field. I realize an increase in competition must be hard for your sensitive constitutions to deal with. Wishing you all strength during this difficult time.
I used to be on the fence about electing judges outright, vs. Missouri Plan retention elections. It always seemed to me that there was no correlation between election vs. appointment and whether someone turned out to be a good judge or not. These results have helped to change my mind. It is absurd to elect judges.
This isn't about "increased access to careers in the legal field." This is about elections where, by example, a female challenger to a male incumbent prevailed without even attempting to campaign. Or the fact that the split of judges now is overwhelmingly female in the district. I'm not sure it's the result of misandry, necessarily, but it sure is lopsided. I actually don't have a good idea as to why this is happening, though.
Take Erika Ballou versus Dan Gilliam for Dept 24. He raised over $155,000 in campaign. He received endorsements from law enforcement and the labor unions. He lists the names of numerous attorneys who have come out to endorse him. He even took the time to create a webpage. Ballou, on the other hand, raised $0 for her "campaign", according to the SOS website. She didn't even bother to create a campaign website. Only article I could find to learn anything about her is that she works a public defender and had to remove her BLM pin while in court before Judge Herdon. That's it! She has the right race and gender to walk into a job that without working a campaign to get elected. Judicial elections are a shame and they need to stop.
12:27– You had me in agreement right up to the point that she had the right "race and gender to walk into a job. . . ." Her race was not on the ballot; her sex was. As you indicate, she advertised so little that but for me going and looking her up, I had no idea what her race was. Bafflingly unqualified but not because of her race.
You may not like the way she got there by not campaigning or spending money, but Erika is absolutely qualified for the position and will be a fine addition to the bench.
Sounds like Dave Thomas is having a meltdown about getting his ass beat. I did not appreciate his comments about Elissa Cadish when ahe won.
I'm sorry but how many thousands of years has it been that completely average or unqualified white men had "the right race and gender" to walk into any job? But a completely qualified Black woman wins a judicial race and now you're upset? Sigh.
Completely qualified to be on the ballot. Not completely qualified (and certainly not most qualified) to serve in the position. I am qualified to sign up for the Rock and Roll Marathon; I am not qualified to win it.
9:26 — Amen. We have now seen what $150 and a who-gives-a-crap can buy you. Gilliam worked his ass off, but lost to one-who-we-shall-not-name, the corona virus of the 2020 EJDC elections.
If Nevada won't have full tallies until Thursday, as it has been reported, how can we call any judicial race that is separated by <5000 votes? Some of them are so close, and if there are still ballots being counted state-wide, I can't see how we can call any winners at this point.
(disclaimer: I am not a candidate and have no vested interest in this, just watching this show with amusement since we'll never have a clear indication of a winner in anything a this rate)
Agreed. Approximately 75,000 known returned ballots are yet to be counted in Clark County, and of all mail ballots still outstanding who knows how many people mailed ballots yesterday that will trickle in over the next several days
Because many of the races are blowouts.
Didn't think it was possible, but family court has gotten worse. Thanks!
Ignore, for just a moment, the bizarre pandemic-related circumstances surrounding this particular year's election.
The popular arguments against traditional precinct-based in-person voting are that it results in voter suppression since some people can't get time off from work to go to their local polling place, the elderly can't leave their homes to vote, etc. Stated differently, vote-by-mail and early-voting theoretically provides wider access to the political process.
1. Is this really true?
2. Have the newer methods of voting created markedly greater participation?
3. Is this purportedly more-inclusive manner of election worth the very real delays, uncertainly, doubt, and illegitimacy it casts on the electoral process?
1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. Yes.
Agree. Yes to all.
This assumes that increased access to the political process is necessarily a good thing. If anything, the last thirty years of American politics tends to support Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle's claim that, next to tyranny, democracy is the worst form of gov't.
Dan Gilliam lost to a candidate who raised and spent no money and told people she was not interested in the job. Shows the power of gender in today's environment.
https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/05/district-court-department-24/
Shocked about Judge Bare: respected Judge; spent money on good ads, no controversy, unknown opponent….
Misandry. Bigots rule.
https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/05/district-court-department-32/
The increase in misandry and what is has wrought with the judiciary in Clark County are a couple more problems for which you can thank Trump.
Bare can come back with a boomerang.
@11:36, thank Trump? Are you smoking crack??? The Left's existence is premises on identity politics and hatred of the white man. Thank the Left. Look at how many "Emerge" candidates win. They did little to zero campaigning but had their Left voting bloc to carry them. God help this state and country.
I just had to google the word "misandry." Poor, poor white men.
I looked up three definitions of misandry. Did not see race mentioned in any of them. You found an interesting dictionary 9:01.
@1:07 45,700 votes is a lot of "boom" in the rang, Mate. McDundee might have to stick with shrimps on the barbie or emu eggs for now.
as of 2:30 a.m. Wednesday:
"The race in Department 8 was just about tied, with incumbent Trevor Atkin having 39.6 percent of the vote against truancy diversion judge Jessica Peterson, who had 39.3 percent."
This gender shit is for real.
This is absurd. Scotti, Coffing, Aurbach and Bare all defeated? I'm in favor of diversity of every kind but this is ridiculous. These are all fine attorneys will many years of solid litigation experience that deserved to be on the bench(or remain there). The District Court bench is diminished with their defeat.
As Adlai Stevenson said, "Your public servants serve you right; indeed, often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve…"
Atkin, also an elite lawyer, has only a razor-thin lead as of 2:30 am.
Glad they lost, except Atkin.
With all the PDs winning, will we see an increase in leniency in criminal cases? And will the PDs take the time to master commercial and personal injury law?
Trying to be positive, they will at least know the rules of evidence. A good start.
I believe in total they will balance out the previously DA-heavy bench that had no belief in leniency, resulting in an overall "reasonable" bench. Still skewed by the specific judge in a case but a big step in the right direction. Also you don't for sure, some of them may be tired of criminal law and actually want to learn/do something new.
I have a case in front of one of the departments in question. Very complex business litigation (albeit not business court). Receivership in place. And a brand new PD is going to "take the time to master commercial and personal injury law" while overseeing this $17M receivership. Brilliant!
Let me be clear about the "time to master commercial and personal injury law", there are monies and forces behind those neophytes who will make it clear what way they are to rule.
https://nv.emergeamerica.org/
Anyone starting a version that recruits, trains and provides a powerful network to Democratic men who want to run for office?
I did not know that there was an organization like Emerge America. #misandry
Misandry and left-wing nutjobs. Emerge is an offshoot of an org formed by that weasel, David Hogg.
Clark County voters keep Bill Kephart and his sordid record of misconduct, but get rid of Rob Bare, one of our best judges. That alone is proof we should not be electing judges. Clark County voters have no fucking clue what they are doing.
Agreed x10.
With all of the outstanding mail-in ballots, e.g., "tens of thousands" as reported in the RJ earlier today, how can the results reported so far be considered as final projections?
There are lots of remaining votes to be counted and I'm predicting that Tara Clark Newberry will squeak past Jacob Reynolds in final totals.
I have a trial coming up in Dept. 4. I assumed it would be in front of Aurbach. I do not know anything about Nadia Krall. What is her background?
As I understand, her background involves being outside the courtroom, but she will now be located inside the courtroom. Good luck!
2:20 wins blog. Putting lid on rest of today. Back to basement.
2:25, I second that. I'll see myself out.
2:20 won.
if you are representing a plaintiff, she will be pretty good for you.
So one of them announced above will work for Eglet. The other will go back to his old premiere firm. And both of them just tripled their $alarie$$$!
Who is going to Eglet? Bare?
So what are you saying Bare is going to Eglet and that Scotti is going back to Kemp Jones. Where do you get your information?
Bare can't go back to a premiere firm. He came from OBC.
Point of order 2:37, OBC is a premier firm!
(Ask Kim Farmer and her puppet supreme court justices and student council BOG.)
OMG, I thought he had OCD! What a relief.
This is for all who ran and lost.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
April 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne in Paris, France
4:09 redeems all of the blog's sins of 2020.
Great post.
Hear, hear!
So who is going to work for Eglet? He needs a litigator.
Where are John Hunt and Terry Coffing going to work? Clark Hill and MAC are income flat.
I voted for Rob Bare. As sad as I am to see him lose, I appreciate he lost to a fellow Democrat thanks to the same identity politics he, as a Democrat, probably supports. I love it when the Left eats their own.
New York can count its ballots in one night but Nevada cannot? Just a tad ridiculous.
The enormous office of Dennis Prince remains empty. Was he allowed to take some furniture? Probably not.
What happened to Dennis Prince?
The whole story has never been told. He was basically locked out of the building.
I have never laughed so hard listening to white men cry about women (and specifically women of color) getting judicial positions. Its almost as if they don't know that women are held back in nearly every career path exclusively due to their gender – including promoting within law firms. Did it ever occur to you that people might think that women are better equipped for the job??? Its okay. Grab a tissue. You will muddle through.
LOL, bigotry is so cool, as long as it's your team. Merit is for losers. Sexual organs, sexual preference, and race is what matters. The sexes and races are inherently different, so your preferred one must be given preference. Merit is a patriarchal, raycist, regressive, capitalist, and oppressive term.
This will work out so well across the board. History is replete with successful caste systems based on everything but merit.
LOL, indeed.
Lol, males claiming mormon bigotry.
The problem with pendulums is that they swing and then they swing back.
White male, over 25 years practice. It seems true some women won based on gender. So the pendulum swings. The real issue for all of us should be qualifications. It seems several well qualified candidates lost to less qualified candidates. In those departments, we all lost. Scotti was smart and fair. Bare was nice, hard working. The bar should be committed to improve the quality of judicial candidates.
I don't know many of the probable winners. I am hopeful they are up to the task, not merely gender correct.