Casino says it won't happen again!

"Just go ahead with your unconstitutional thing for now while we pretend everything is normal" is often the outlook of your United States Supreme Court when it comes to Trump's egregious infringement on ... lots of stuff ... including states' authority to administer their own elections as specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

Incredibly shrinking Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the court's Republican-appointed supermajority yesterday said maybe it's okay for Trump (who better!?) to decide who gets a mail ballot and who doesn't (see below). There's still at least one more legal ruling on the issue outstanding. So the practical upshot of the nauseating game of footsie the court's Republicans are playing with the world's most notoriously untrustworthy person may be confined to further deterioration of the court's own trustworthiness, and AI in consultation with Trump henchman Stephen Miller won't be in charge of Nevada's election after all.

Then again, this timeline is chock full o' creeps and freak shows and needless tragedy.

Meanwhile, Nevada Secretary of State Sometimes-Cisco-Sometimes-Fransciso Aguilar blasted the court's decision as "another attempt to attack states’ constitutional right to run elections and it’s disheartening to see the justices give this executive order the ability to move forward."

The ruling "does not address the constitutionality of the executive order," Aguilar noted, adding "we look forward to continued legal fights to prove that states have the right to run elections as they determine."

And how does Gov. Joe Lombardo feel about which of his constituents do and don't get a mail ballot being determined not by the state of Nevada as per the U.S. Constitution but by bootlicking Trump minions? Well, being one himself...

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Venetian's $7.2 million fine. “The rash of complaints against Strip properties should be humiliating,” says a former California Gambling Control Commissioner, adding “the feds and the press had more to do with uncovering these complaints than the properties or the Nevada Gaming Control Board." Dana Gentry reports: Wave of anti-money laundering sanctions has Strip’s attention, says Venetian’s attorney

“The Department of the Interior can’t roll Nevada and solve the entire Colorado River shortage on the backs of the Lower Basin states,” your governor said. Jeniffer Solis reports: Nevada sues feds over Colorado River cuts

Note: Dang. If only Lombardo knew someone who had some pull with Trump.

Yikes. Firefighters made progress on the Hawk Fire yesterday, but the winds, and the dry, and ... ugh. Jeniffer Solis reports: Reno Hawk Fire destroys 32 homes, crews make progress on containment

Coincidentally, two days before the Hawk Fire started, a legislative committee convened for its final 2026 meeting to discuss bill draft recommendations for the 2027 legislative session. Wildfire evacuation was on the agenda. A customarily insightful and info-packed column from Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos: Nevada officials face reckoning as residents and tourists compete for lodging, cell service, roads

But this way at least they don't offend His Excellency. “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell,” the court's Republican majority wrote. Here's the D.C. bureau's story on the court's aforementioned footsie game with whatshisface. Supreme Court keeps Trump’s mail-ballot order alive, for now

Good Luck