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- With mail-in votes still to be counted, results aren’t final, but two incumbents take the lead in district court races. [RJ]
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Seems like all that bickering over being a Leavitt was pointless. It didn’t help either of them win.
That’s because neither of them are real Leavitts. Hahaha.
I voted against Madilyn Fitzpatrick Cole based solely on this issue.
Sorry to hear about this, hope one day you can recover
Madilyn is Judge Michelle Leavitt’s daughter. Justice Leavitt’s granddaughter. How is she not a real Leavitt?
Linda Bell was born to Stewart Bell and has been legally named Bell at various times in her life. Madilyn Fitzpatrick was born to Michelle Fitzpatrick nee Michelle Leavitt. Michelle changed her name back to Michelle Leavitt. Michelle and Linda both use names that they were and are legally entitled to use.
Madilyn has never been and is not currently named Leavitt. If Madilyn would have advertised that she came from a long line of the Leavitt family, I would have had no objection to that. But to claim that her name is Leavitt is false.
Stop with the picking of nits. We have heard your arguments ad – fucking – nauseum.
She is a blood Leavitt and to deny her that is obtuse at best and idiotic at worst.
Which begs the question, what the fuck does being a “blood Leavitt” have to do with the judiciary? What is this, medieval feudal Europe?
I wish. We could joust instead of motion practice.
Congrats DJT!
MAGA !!!! YUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!
That’s what she said.
Uganda can count votes on election day but Nevada cannot? Newsflash: DJT won, so just stop trying to rig it.
Counting mail in votes received by Saturday. That’s nuts.
I suspect Rosen will suddenly pull ahead and win.
There’s… how many races did you… how many bubbles did you fill in when you voted? Ostensibly more than one???????
This profession is a joke tbh
Clark County voters don’t deserve Terry Coffing. It’s astonishing how bad the electorate is in picking judges. Astonishing, but not surprising.
It appears the bench will continue to be very criminal and very female.
He hardly campaigned. It’s hard to vote for someone who barely lifted a finger after filing. Same for Alex.
Your right he should have put up a bunch of signs that annually make our county look like shit.
I think you’re confusing campaigning with advertising. He didn’t do anything – no campaign fundraisers, no digital ads, phone calls, canvassing, actual ads, no text messages, no events attended with the exception of a couple, didn’t seek endorsements and just put his name on the ballot. We have seen several races where putting your name on the ballot and doing *nothing* has actually worked and can only name one judge who that worked for. I see a lot of bring back the civil bench comments but the civil bench has to come to grips with actually campaigning and talking to voters who are outside the legal world.
I actually saw some videos on facebook that he did. And a friend said they got a recorded call from his campaign. But I only saw him at one bar function and he really looked like he mailed it in. Which is disappointing. I think he would make a good judge
As a reminder – regular, everyday people vote. Those 200-500k votes aren’t just coming from the legal community.
Regular, every day people are fucking stupid. . . . . .
Yes, and they still vote. The reasons could be “I’m voting for a woman”, “I’m voting for a man”, “this is the first name on the ballot”, “my name is *name of candidate*”.
So again, you want to bring back the civil bench, you have to talk to or get your name out to everyday people.
I don’t have a problem with a female bench per se. I have a problem with voting for a female on that alone. As a strident feminist, I don’t see how it serves our interests or our cause to vote for dumb women. We’ve got some real winners down in family court. One was even reprimanded for incompetence. The same is happening at the RJC with the civil and crim benches. Coffing should have won and he had my vote and the vote of everyone who asked me which judges to vote for. We need good judges…male and female alike. I agree representation matters, but not when the representation is incompetent.
I’ll say it again. Coffing should have actually campaigned if he wanted it. He simply didn’t. It’s hard enough to beat an incumbent but thinking you’re going to do it just sitting on the couch, ain’t going to happen.
So experience and ability mean nothing it how many babies you kiss and signs you put up.
FIFY: How signs the Culinary, LVPPA and Firefighters pay for you to put up with their logos on it.
How many*
Welcome to politics. You actually have to try and convince people to vote for you.
Yes, sadly that’s how politics work.
I can’t believe Family Court judge Paul Gaudet lost last night. Of course, he lost to an under-funded and not qualified female opponent. It should say on the ballot in a judicial race which candidate is the incumbent as we are losing a good judge to a candidate that will have a huge learning curve backed by Legal Aid. I guess the voters will have to vote out Kerri in a couple of years. Dept N deserves better. And no, my name is not Paul or Mark.
I agree with you. The family court bench has too many judges with no actual domestic experience. I know some people have issues with Gaudet, but I was really encouraged by his position on some critical issues like the over reliance of family court judges on bought-and-paid-for outsourced providers. I guess that’s family court for you. Poke your head up and you get wacked. It’s happened to good judges before so we keep getting more of the same.
I agree, he was a great Judge!!! Sad to see that he lost!
So sad to see Judge Gaudet go. I will be perempting Kerri. She is clueless regarding divorce and custody. She is not the kind of person who commands the dignity and authority of the bench. I have dealt with Kerri personally.
I agree with you that the more qualified candidate lost. But stop with this garbage that Maxey was backed by LACSN. Did Kerri used to work there? Yes. Did LACSN as an organization or the brass endorse Kerri? Nope. Many actually endorsed and supported Paul.
“dumb women” have made a lot of good decisions for me, its the smart men I have a problem with
Maybe there needs to be a revamp with law firms and campaign donations. Clearly the bar didn’t want civil bench back whether or not they campaigned. Campaigns shouldn’t be based on how many signs and how much you pay for advertisements either though it helps.
So congrats on having yet female bench of criminal law backgrounds.
I look forward to 2026. It’s not over. Maybe Coffing, 3rd time is a charm and he should jumpstart. Adam Ganz kept running and he got the commish spot (not sure if appointed or elected.)
I’d be shocked if he runs again. He has much better things to do with his time. Has a real life.
Well then recruitment for civil bench 2026 should happen now
And hopefully by then there can be a constitution amendment too
Constitutional amendment for what?
Recruitment? I nominate you big talker.
It’s odd that you understand presidential elections but not judicial. The electorate is more than just the civil bar.
Well duh. But the electorate at large is fucking stupid when it comes to educating themselves about the judges and instead of recognizing that and skipping them, they just tick the boxes of the signs nearest their home or the prettiest woman or whoever comes first in the alphabet.
They also vote for people who campaigned to them, and non legal people who they trust. I’m trying to drive this point to the #bringbackthecivilbench posters: actually campaign if you want to win elections – even, if not especially, to the people you find are stupid.
Upvoting bc sounds good
You said it, man.
I want to extend a hand to my liberal colleagues. I’m a rabid DJT supporter and of course glad he won but the lesson is that most people care about their families, the economy, etc. and not what the liberals have tried to make your party about. Let’s work together and I ask you to please focus your party on those issues above and stop with the DEI, woke, trans, moral decay that is driving this country apart. Join us. Thank you.
This is just a lie. Watching the news last night was so depressing. It’s not the economy. Inflation is not inflation…it’s corporate price gouging. No one is attacking families. That’s just code for you hate the gays. There is no DEI woke trans moral decay. You just want to feel the control that you’ve always had in this country. At least have the fortitude to be honest about it. You’re a white man and you feel entitled to be the boss because our society and institutions have always been about you. Your Serena Joy sidekicks will learn the hard way, just like their fictional namesake. I will never join you in your foul cesspool with your crispy fried fascist figurehead.
Have the fucking balls to be honest about who and what you are. Coward.
OP points to scoreboard
Bravo. White men who want to control women won last night.
I support the right of a woman to choose to be born and oppose violence against the unborn.
You lost almost every demographic and county. Keep that attitude and JD will be president until we’re both old.
That’s fine. Y’all won. I’m leaving. I am making plans and I’m leaving this state and this country. Enjoy your dystopian hellscape. If you hadn’t guessed, I’m the poster from yesterday who instigated the thwackage and while I won’t repeat what I said because I’m trying to give LawDawg a break today, I will say I hope you all get exactly what you voted for and I especially hope your Serena Joy’s get EVERYTHING they voted for.
See ya, pal!
Not if I see you first. And don’t call me “pal” because I am certainly not the type to consort with fascists.
Will we get the mainfesto today???? I was looking forward to it yesterday.
Aww sore loser 🙁
In the words of Eddie Murphy’s father:
Dis i’ MAH House, and if don’t like it? You can git da FUK out!
BTW, we knew who you were from the first line of your post. You wont be missed, feminazi.
Better to be a feminazi than an actual nazi. I find it delightful that you think you know who I am. Living rent free in your head is funny, though the accommodations are slightly cramped and barely furnished. 1 star for you!
And I don’t know who you are at all.
We knew who you were from your admission of your psychopathic rants from yesterday.
Calm Down
🤏
*too
Cope and seethe.
Ok family first Christian dude. Just remember Proverbs 16:18 when you write your posts crowing about your win and your families and your values. Hypocrisy always has been your forte.
You mad bro?
11:15 here, not married, no kids, not christian. Again, cope and seethe.
She is all over Tik Tok guaranteed. I can feel the tears through the screen . . . .
11:01 is exactly the reason Kamala and the Dems lost last night
There is no such thing as price gouging. Prices are set by what the market will support. If someone is willing to pay more than you, it’s probably because they want or need the item more than you. Artificial price lowering will just distort the market so someone who doesn’t really need or want an item as badly as you can get it at a huge discount if they get in line first (or have some connection) and then either waste it or resell it and realize part of the profit that the original seller should have had. There is a single cause of a general rise in prices and wages, and that is inflation. Inflation is an increase in the supply of money and credit via money printing or fractional reserve banking. Those things happen because it is the best way for the government to finance its spending beyond the ability to tax directly. But inflation is an indirect tax. It taxes your currency and your savings. The way to stop inflation is to stop inflating, which means stopping deficit spending, which means stopping government largesse. It could be done in months if there was the political will. Maybe now there is.
I’m sure that when you wrote that you felt very smart, but you are wrong. No I will not prove you are wrong. Go read. Go listen to actual economic experts and less podcasts. Hell, even a brief history of the Great Depression would serve you.
Yes, because the theory of Supply and demand and free market wasn’t written by Economists in the first fucking place.
THIS
Goverment tinkering caused and prolonged the Great Depression. I have read the experts that understand as well as those that don’t.
@11:01
Yours is an extraordinarily angry post. No one here knows you. No one here cares if you are gay or straight. Most of the people here are understanding. If your job bugs enough for you to rant on this blog almost everyday, find another job. Walk around the block. Talk to a therapist. SBN offers free referrals. Take care of your mental health.
I wish you well.
“There is no DEI woke trans moral decay.” Keep telling yourself that, you’re driving the electorate right into the arms of people like Trump, and Boebert, and MTG.
All you have to do is live and let live. Just leave it alone. Straight people don’t jam straightness down others’ throats. When you violently insist upon special rights for the alphablet people, expect consequences.
Popular speech needs no protection. Only unpopular speech needs government protection. Popular people can life their life without the fear of oppression.
So when you claim “the alphabet people” are violently demanding special rights, consider that they are simply unpopular and what seems to be them demanding special rights is just them asking to live their life without the fear of oppression.
I mean, it wasn’t the alphabet people running trans-panic political ads 24/7.
Based.
And don’t extend your hand or anything else to me. I’ll chop that shit right off.
I am a Republican but your analysis is partially flawed. People care about the economy. The GOP’s fascination with “DEI/woke/trans” was not what moved the needle. The Dems’ at times singular focus on abortion was not what moved the needle. Abortion rights won in states that still voted Red at the top of the ticket. People have feelings on social issues but were not voting social issues when choosing candidates yesterday.
1. It is Carville’s overused line but truly “It is the Economy, Stupid.”
2. Secondarily the Democrats chose the wrong candidate. Not because she ran a bad race. She ran a fantastic race under the circumstances. Much better than I ever thought she could or would run. Not because she was a gaffe-prone idiot. But last night showed that it did not matter how strong of a campaign she ran, the electorate was not generally going to vote for a Kamala Harris. I suspect that if the D Party could go back and choose a candidate who was more palatable to the general electorate, they would in a heartbeat. There are candidates in that party who could have run a much less effective race and still won. We can admit that we wish we were a society where that is not still the case in 2024; but that is still the case in 2024.
The D’s peaked with Obama. . . . and that’s saying something.
Mostly agree. GOP recruited Latino voters who are largely Catholic and that’s going to continue. Some leftists openly espouse anti-Christian and antisemitic hate. I’m not a Republican but I find that repulsive. Tim Walz is the worst candidate I have personally ever seen. Remember that Harris chose him over Shapiro to appease the Hamas cheerleader crowd. As Gov of PA, Shapiro might have delivered PA but we’ll never know. Trump had a well-developed plan to increase votes among men, rural residents, and Hispanics. It worked.
I wish the Democratic Party stood for any of the things you think it does. It’s so far right of progressive.
Wait . . . what?
1:10 didn’t stutter. The current Democratic party is, at best, slightly left of political center, if not actually to the right.
Traditional rednecks, meaning the ones who worked in mines and literally battled against corporate mine owners for their right to unionize, spilling their own blood along the way, are significantly more the the left. Do you see anyone actively campaigning on nationalizing.. well, anything? Aggressively unionizing as a means of exerting full worker control over the industry, instead of minor improvements in conditions and pay? Even the health care proposals were always a parallel system, instead of a genuine “the private health care system in place is genuinely evil, and needs to be torn down as a public nuisance and the mechanisms placed in public hands.”
The problem is that today’s Republican party is so far to the right that they cast anything they oppose as “left.” Anti-immigrant (legal or otherwise), anti-trade, protectionist, nationalists. That’s why their squawking about “socialism” is just so much noise.
you didn’t stutter, I agree, you just never studied history
More like left of Mao.
This is what I’m talking about. The Democrats don’t even let progressives and leftists have a seat at their table, and they certainly don’t adopt any progressive or leftist ideas into their platform.
But it doesn’t matter. Most conservatives/Republicans think the DNC platform is socialism. I’m not even saying those people are uninformed. I get why they think that.
It’s all just vibes. The Dems in Congress don’t accomplish progressive reforms ever. The ones running have stopped even appeasing the part of the base left of the party.
If you’re going to be called a socialist as an epithet it would be nice if you actually tried a little socialism from time to time. Instead, they’re just the not mean choice for corporate donorship.
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Come on folks. Whether you’re upset about the results of the election or overjoyed, let’s not make Lawdawg tap the thwackin’ sign.
For the record I have been an DJT fan for decades. I have followed Trump through the news both tabloid and mainstream since his divorce from Ivana. Today and going forward, is not a time to gloat. This is a time to show good behavior, empathy, and civility. Think about how your fellow American is feeling; they may feel devastated, disenfranchised, and hurt. Red and Blue alike, all care about our families and our country.
Yeah, but she BIG mad! ☝️☝️
She mad because she lost BIGLY!
I don’t recall Dems being a-holes when DJT lost in 2020. You guys just can’t stop yourselves re: civility.
I agree. I want to show the liberals that the world is not ending.
Well it kinda is, climate change and all. But climate policy will be set back substatively, thus worsening the impending serious disasters, not just for you, but all children and grandchildren.
I sincerely hope DJT does not go off the rails, having illustrated there is literally no conduct sufficient to bring him any consequences. I’m reminded of Plato’s invisible ring thought experiment. If you face no consequences for conduct in office (thank you Supreme Court), what will stop him from pursuing self motivated conduct that would be at odds with the general good?
I wish I could have hope like you 4pm. Last time, there were some adults in the room who at least slow-rolled some of the more heinous things he tried. This time, there will be no adults in the room, only sycophants.
oh no the climate is changing? who cares, there are much bigger issues facing the planet than something that has been happening for the earth’s entire existence
You know what’s really scary is that whomever is posting as “psychopath”, if a real lawyer, is lurking around somewhere perhaps working with us more stable people right now on either side of the aisle.
I gotta believe that I would recognize her if she were cross-aisle.
I am guessing either PD or LASCN.
I’m fairly fresh from Boyd. There are a few of my former classmates who fit the profile of the “psychopath”. Like these were generally mentally unstable people who I feared would actually attempt to have me expelled because I dared question their worldview.
NLG and ACS were nearly completely comprised of this type of person. Remember the dumb ass “open letters” they would send out? Lol
Judicial elections do not work. Objectively better candidates lost last night. The general populous isn’t qualified to elect judges.
Based.
It is impossible to vote for judges – particularly in Clark County were there are so many departments. Even as a 20-year litigation attorney I haven’t worked with or seen many of them – particularly the family court judges who are routinely called out on this blog. I’m not opposed to DAs and PDs becoming civil judges, but at least have them vetted at some level. Form a non-partisan commission to appoint and then have a retention vote. If a judge gets enough bad publicity they can be removed by the electorate.
Erm, you mean like the one they have now in charge of appointments? 7 people to control the gates.
Yeah, the Judicial appointment committee. Not a fan. They are more concerned with whether you have a comma out of place in your application than if you are really truly qualified. If you have ever sat in the hot seat with that committee, you know of what I speak…
I plan to run for NV Legislature to fix this problem.
you should run for a constitutional amendment instead
Apparently the same goes for the presidential election.
Good grief, my lefty friends are already starting the adopt the new cope: it was stolen! Please, no, not again.
No, your “lefty friends” are not claiming it was stolen so just stop it. It’s not the left that seeks to sow doubt about elections.
Sow doubts…
That theme is “so yesterday”. What affirms the “tax and spend” moniker of the left party is the failed candidate’s and current president’s, efforts to pander and buy votes. $25K to buy a house, forgive student loans, clamp down on greedy landlords, build 3 million new homes, tax the rich for their “fare share” (a term which no Dem has ever defined). The money for this of course comes from those of us who actually pay taxes or by borrowing more money from China via T-Bills.
why deny something that is obvious, whoever loses likes to claim fraud, how do you know what the op’s friends are saying, you don’t, so don’t be dumb
Perhaps you have a short memory. But HRC claimed then and claims now the election was stolen from her. I am not a republican, but let’s just be honest and not tribal. A pox on both houses. And yes, I have seen plenty of voices on X claiming the numbers don’t add up and there are fishy things suggesting the republicans stole the votes. let’s just stop the nonsense
One of the saddest things for me is the loss of Joe Sciscento from the Justice Court bench. Excellent judge and a great guy. People don’t realize what they did.
Yikes! I just saw that result. That’s an unfortunate result. Very unfortunate.
Yes and Paul Gaudet too. A lot of people just pick names without knowing anything about them and it’s sad
Huge loss for an attorney who attorneys in her own office find incompetent for most part.
Plus Bradford originally told people she was “helping” Joe to split the vote with Bravo but started campaigning hard once she realized she could win.
With friends like that…
Very upset about this one as well…
Probably the biggest shock of the election and a colossal loss for the community.