Rebecca Gill In The News

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Sweeping Supreme Court opinions released Monday are expected to reshape how elections are run in more than half the states, raising new questions about what comes next for voting rules and future legal fights.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s announcement last week that he supports in vitro fertilization (IVF) is putting him on opposite sides of the state’s Republican Party, a declaration highlighting a broader divide among Republicans about how far the party should go in limiting reproductive rights after the Supreme Court ended the right to abortion. Paxton’s announcement comes as he is locked in a neck-and-neck race for U.S. Senate against Democrat James Talarico.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo won their parties' primaries in this year's Nevada gubernatorial race, CBS News projects, setting up the November ballot in one of the races Democrats are targeting.
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As polls closed across Nevada Tuesday evening, Clark County election officials began processing thousands of ballots delivered to the county’s election headquarters.
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Nevada's Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo tops Democrats' target list this year to flip, and two Democrats are vying for the chance to take him on in November.
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The U.S. Supreme Court restored broad access to the abortion pill Mifepristone, at least for now, allowing women to obtain the medication at pharmacies, through telehealth or through the mail without an in-person visit to a doctor.
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The Shutdown Fairness Act would make it illegal to withhold pay from workers like TSA officers during a government shutdown. Union leaders for the TSA at Harry Reid International Airport said the passing of the act would mean peace of mind and stability after weeks of uncertainty, as workers have shown up faithfully without pay to work. The airport has experienced some of the lowest call-out rates, averaging around 10 percent.
Las Vegas Review Journal
All but 11,875 mail-in ballots cast in Nevada’s two most populous counties during the 2024 general election arrived at county offices by the end of Election Day. The future of a 2020 Nevada law that allows counties to accept mail ballots after Election Day, however, is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, which is deliberating a similar Mississippi law.