Conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of the court's decision that ultimately stripped away constitutional protections for abortion.
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Overall turnout was 55%, or 1,023,617 of Nevada’s 1.8 million active registered voters
Overall turnout was 55%, or 1,023,617 of Nevada’s 1.8 million active registered voters
Crime-and-courts
A former Idaho inmate who became the first person to receive court-ordered gender confirmation surgery is asking a judge to order the state to pay more than $2.8 million in attorney fees and other costs associated with the case.
New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal says the judiciary committee examining charges against Gov. Andrew Cuomo will wind down their i…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada state judge has issued his formal stay of execution for a convicted killer of four people whose lethal injection wou…
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that pits the rights of individual voters to enact new laws or repeal e…
BOISE, Idaho — The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is suing Idaho Gov. Brad Little and state wildlife officials in federal court, con…
Under Trump, Interior officials said mining or grazing would not pose a significant threat to sage grouse
National Mining Association spokesperson Conor Bernstein said the group was disappointed in the ruling
Cattle producers can apply to compete for access to federal grazing allotments that Oregon’s Hammond Ranches lost in a court decision.
U.S. Interior Department officials are seeking to bolster their case for easing restrictions on energy development, mining and grazing in Western states inhabited by a declining bird species.
Politics
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — As former White House counsel to President Donald Trump, Atlantic City native Don McGahn helped reshape the nation’s federal judiciary and remains in the middle of legal wranglings over Trump’s impeachment.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Idaho man who illegally guided bear and moose hunts in Alaska was fined $20,000 and ordered never to hunt in the s…
Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevada newspaper columnist. You may email him at thomasmnv@yahoo.com. He also blogs at http://4thst8.wordpress.com.
ELKO – Judicial filings kick off the 2020 election season in January, with three district court benches open in Elko’s judicial district.
MAYS LANDING — Court officials in other parts of the state still refer to it as “drug court,” but for Judge Mark Sandson and the Atlantic and Cape May county courts, it’s all about recovery.
TRENTON — The state’s judiciary on Tuesday published its annual report on New Jersey’s 2-year-old bail overhaul, hailing the largely cash-free system for reducing “unnecessary detention of low-risk defendants.”
While the media and House Democrats will focus their attention on investigating President Donald Trump in 2019, Senate Republicans will concen…
BOISE — An animal welfare group on Tuesday applauded a court ruling ordering the state of Idaho to pay $260,000 to attorneys for animal rights…
WASHINGTON — For someone trying to demonstrate that the judiciary is not political, getting into a political fight with the president sure is …
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The first public grizzly bear hunts in the Northern Rockies in almost three decades have been blocked by a U.S. judge w…
BOISE — A giant forest project in Idaho is on hold following a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The showdown became a literal shouting match as both sides dug in and took shots.