Law
Flat-Earth Barristers
Among all the American jokes at the expense of lawyers and politicians is one so deftly on-target that even lawyers and politicians, long ago, made its punch line part of their idiom.
Nevada's New Class, Part III
It was easy to predict. All you had to notice was how complicit Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson have been in the deceit their double-dipping state-lawmaker employees were perpetrating on local taxpayers.
Nevada's New Class, Part II
Much public attention lately has been on the ‘double dippers’—those lawmakers who manipulated the system in order to get paid by both state and local governments at the same time.
Nevada's New Class, Part I
In the Soviet Union, the specially privileged became known as the nomenklatura.
The Conspiracy Against Taxpayers
The lid seems to be coming off Nevada’s ongoing public-employees-in-the-Legislature scandal.
The Bar Sinister
As Nevada’s Supreme Court careens from one self-inflicted embarrassment to another, a question always recurs.
The Rule of (No) Law
When Nevada’s Supreme Court voted to nullify the state constitution’s two-thirds rule on tax-increases this July, it wasn’t the first time the justices had brazenly flouted the state’s most fundamental law.
More Supreme Court Howlers
On July 10, 2003, before the eyes of history and a suddenly attentive Nevada public, the state Supreme Court stepped into the spotlight, filled with confidence.
The People Be Damned
Judges like to posture as wise and fair authority figures. But the reality is that any judge is an amalgam of two of the most-often-despised occupational types of American life: the lawyer and the politician.
The Final Straw
A family kneels weeping by the lifeless body of their newborn child on the side of the road to St. George, Utah.
