The resignation follows an Indy story revealing reports that Cafferata, a longtime fixture in Nevada political and legal circles, did not ably represent clients.

Advocates and experts warn the decision could compromise efforts to meet a legal mandate to provide public defenders for those in need.

Campaign for Choice — underestimated at the time and overlooked since — organized in 1990 to pass a referendum which has locked down abortion rights in Nevada for more than 30 years.

In a lengthy order Friday, a District Court judge sanctioned Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones over deleted text messages in an ongoing dispute over efforts to build homes near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

As a lawsuit over a Red Rock housing project makes its way through federal court, the case filings read as a who’s who of Las Vegas politics. They shed light on the transactional nature of the Clark County Commission and how one of the state’s most powerful local governments decides land-use questions.

Nevada is a firmly pro-choice state with the protections from Roe v. Wade enshrined in state law and the majority of Nevadans consistently polling in favor of reproductive rights. But it’s the only state in the country that can imprison people for terminating a pregnancy under certain circumstances, according to Laura FitzSimmons, the Carson City-based lawyer now representing Frazier pro bono.

Members of BIDS, who were announced on Tuesday, are charged with helping keep a standard level of legal representation throughout the state for anyone in financial need who is charged with a crime. The board is made up of 13 voting members and three non-voting members, who are appointed to three-year terms.

Sisolak, who defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in the November election and will be sworn in next month as the state’s first Democratic governor in 20 years, kept a packed schedule through most of the year, ranging from meetings with gaming executives, business leaders, top lobbyists and other candidates for office, along with debate prep, campaign events and nearly three dozen fundraisers in addition to his normal county business.