The majority of the jurists are re-elected after opposition doesn't materialize. Eight seats – seven in Clark County – will have new judges after retirements.

The commission's ruling paints Ballou as more advocate than unbiased weigher of fact, but it also noted that the judge testified that "she was not biased but rather showed compassion in her rulings."

The yearslong saga over Nevada Republicans' attempts to overturn the state's 2020 election results for Donald Trump continued on Wednesday, with the state's highest court hearing arguments in a case about whether a lower court's dismissal of forgery charges should be overturned.

Nevada received a poor grade in a new report comparing financial disclosure reports of state supreme court chief justices, with authors saying the state's forms fail to seek information about investments, board positions and other matters that could inform the public about potential conflicts of interest. 

Since 2024, billion-dollar companies, including TripAdvisor and Dropbox, relocated to Nevada. More than a dozen others have announced plans to incorporate there.

In a 4-3 ruling, the court determined that the four legislators did not violate the state Constitution's prohibition of working for multiple branches of state government because none of their employers are part of the judicial or executive branches.

In a 5-2 ruling released Friday, the high court's majority said the minor party's petition contained the wrong affidavit language, invalidating the signatures gathered to land on the ballot. 

The second ballot measure is a failsafe in case the first one doesn't move forward.

A lawsuit over the 2021 Nevada law that targeted one of the nation's largest ghost gun kit and part manufacturers is finally nearing a legal conclusion.

The discussion item, listed on the board's agenda, comes after attempts to abolish the death penalty through the legislative process in 2021 failed. At the time, Sisolak announced there was "no path forward."

Multiple proposed ballot initiatives met their demise Wednesday, the signature-gathering deadline for measures attempting to amend the Nevada Constitution.

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled on three major election cases Tuesday that reshape the November ballot, allowing an initiative proposing open primaries and ranked-choice voting to proceed while voiding another measure proposing a voucher-style education program.

One case is an appeal of a criminal case challenging a case prosecuted by state Sen. Melanie Scheible (D-Las Vegas), who works as a deputy district attorney in Clark County.

Justices made no ruling on Monday, but beyond the constitutional questions, a decision to uphold the district court's ruling last September in favor of Senate Republicans could have major implications for lawmakers crafting the state budget this session. The extended payroll tax rate being challenged in the lawsuit brings in tens of millions of dollars in state tax revenue — meaning legislators could soon be facing a large budget hole with just weeks left in the session.

Joe Biden maintains a narrow lead in Nevada over President Donald Trump, but the state's six electoral votes and the results of many other major congressional, statewide and local races remain up in the air after initial returns on Election Night.

So far, the PAC has started a TV advertising campaign aimed at boosting the candidacy of state Supreme Court candidate Douglas Herndon, an Eighth Judicial District Court judge running against Democratic Assemblyman and attorney Ozzie Fumo for the open seat on the seven-member court. Herndon's political affiliation is described as "Republican" by the Reno Gazette-Journal.

This year, two of the seven Supreme Court seats in Nevada are up for nonpartisan election — those of Justice Mark Gibbons and Chief Justice Kris Pickering. Gibbons, who served as chief justice in 2008, 2014 and 2019, has announced that he will be retiring from the bench and will not seek re-election this year.

Associate Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court Kristina Pickering will seek re-election in 2020. Chief Justice Mark Gibbons will not. The chief presiding criminal judge for Clark County's District Court, Douglas Herndon, confirmed last week that he will seek a seat on the high court in 2020.