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Politics and Government
“We’ll be involved in it very much,” the president said. “We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left.”
The increases, which were set to take effect Jan. 1, come as the Republican president instituted a broad swath of taxes on imported goods to address trade imbalances and other issues.
President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort.
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee released on Wednesday a transcript and video of a closed-door interview Jack Smith gave about two investigations of Donald Trump.
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer is the second judge to act after the Epstein Files Transparency Act created a narrow exception to rules that normally keep grand jury proceedings secret.
The suspended Pahrump Justice of the Peace argued her 2026 reelection campaign will be “clouded by misinformation” without an expedited appeal in a filing Friday.
The court’s conservative majority suggested it would overturn a 90-year-old decision that has limited when presidents can fire agencies’ board members, or leave it with only its shell intact.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation asked questions about 101 judges from the Nevada Supreme Court and multiple lower courts.
Clark County lawyers rated 101 judges for the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation. UNLV’s Center for Research, Evaluation and Assessment conducted the survey, which the Review-Journal has sponsored 14 times since 1992. Here are the results.
Nevada’s appellate courts are full of judges who are experienced and fair in the courtroom, according to Clark County lawyers.
Fourteen judges received retention scores of 90 percent or above in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation and are considered strong performers.
Lawyers gave some of the highest scores to the judges serving on the municipal and justice courts of North Las Vegas, Las Vegas and Henderson — and some of the lowest, too.
Two Family Court judges received especially impressive scores in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation, but lawyers think two others should be ousted.
Lawyers who filled out the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation want two Clark County district judges to leave the bench but gave high marks to others.