Trump campaign sues Nevada over bill expanding mail-in voting for general election

Trump’s remarks, made at the White House, came after he wrote two tweets in two days on the issue, including one that called actions from the Legislature during an ongoing special session “an illegal late night coup.”

That exemption — which includes hospitals, nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, hospice care, skilled nursing facilities and emergency medical care centers — has drawn a sharp rebuke from the Nevada Hospital Association and other health care providers, who say it would prohibit them from transferring patients between facilities or prohibit visitors from coming to visit patients.

Republican Rep. Mark Amodei disagreed Monday with President Donald Trump that Democrats are trying to steal the election in the Silver State and said that the tweet in which the president made the accusation earlier in the day was unhelpful.

Members of the Patient Protection Commission have advanced outlines of two bill draft requests that aim to codify federal emergency guidance on telehealth amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and boost long-term health care data transparency in the state.

Eleven-year-old Camila Flores squealed with delight recently when a rectangular brown box arrived for her and her three brothers. Inside was a Hewlett-Packard laptop, the family’s first computer. Days earlier, the Clark County School Board’s decision to start the new academic year virtually had set Flores in a panic.

“It is not a magic pill. I don't think that in any of this …there's a magic pill that's going to solve it all at once,” said Democratic Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro. “But I think that the flexibility that is provided here, the additional extension of benefits, is meaningful and is not something that we should take lightly or take for granted.”

Senators convened Sunday to advance a bill expanding mail-in voting during times of emergency and pass measures that could clear the way to raise taxes on mining. At the Capitol nearby, Gov. Steve Sisolak signed two bills that made technical changes to laws passed in 2019 and authorized lawmakers to vote remotely. The Nevada Independent is reporting on all of the action in and around the Legislative Building in Carson City. Photographer David Calvert captured the moments when lawmakers cast votes and bills became law.

In separate floor votes on Sunday, the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Senate voted in favor of AJR1, AJR2 and SJR1 — three measures that would modify the current 5 percent cap on the net proceeds of minerals tax set in the state’s Constitution. Progressives have been seeking more revenue out of the industry, saying it has had a “sweetheart deal” in the Constitution since Nevada gained statehood in 1864.

Hours after President Donald Trump threatened litigation over it through a tweet, members of the Nevada Senate voted on party lines to approve a bill that expands mail-in voting during times of emergency.