Gary Martin is the Washington correspondent for the Review-Journal covering Congress. He previously served as political and government editor for the San Antonio Express-News. He has worked at newspapers in Texas and Arizona. Martin received a journalism degree from Colorado State University.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh was described by students, clerks and colleagues Friday as well respected and highly qualified for the Supreme Court, but a lawyer who served prison time for his role in the Watergate scandal called the nomination “deeply troubling.”
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced a final barrage of inquiries from senators on Thursday but appeared headed to likely confirmation barring any new damaging revelation.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh found himself in the hot seat Wednesday, sparring with senators about abortion, guns, presidential pardons, stolen files and sexual harassment.
About 30 protesters were shuffled out of a Senate committee room Monday because of vocal outbursts as lawmakers sought to conduct the first day of reviewing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
They yelled, they shouted, both protesters and lawmakers, as the contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh got underway Tuesday.
Senate confirmation hearings begin this week for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, providing a glimpse into the jurist who upon confirmation would tip the ideological balance of the bench and reshape the court as a more conservative panel for decades to come.
A federal appeals court has scheduled a briefing on Nevada’s legal challenge to Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner David Wright’s participation in decisions involving Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste storage at the proposed site, officials said Friday.
Nevada filed a petition Wednesday asking a federal appeals court to review the state’s request that a commissioner for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recuse himself from decisions involving Yucca Mountain.
Arizona Sen. John McCain may have been a lawmaker from a neighboring state, but his Senate actions and positions as a GOP presidential candidate reverberated through Nevada over the past two decades.
A Trump administration directive eliminating industry and developer payments for habitat protection in exchange for use of public lands has officials in Western states scrambling for answers.
The late Paul Laxalt, a former senator and Nevada governor, was remembered Thursday as a child of Basque immigrants who grew up to dedicate his life to his state and country.
Despite a stalemate in Congress that appears to have shelved action on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project for the year, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval urged state officials to be prepared, proactive and to take the battle to the federal government.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and John Kennedy, R-La., introduced legislation Wednesday that would suspend Medicare payments to pharmacies being investigated for possible fraud to obtain opioid medications.
Tina Frost, a survivor of the Las Vegas Strip shooting being treated for a head wound in Maryland, has moved back to her California home as she continues her recovery with surgeries and therapy.
Justice Department grants totaling more than $3.4 billion will be made available to local victim assistance programs, including a Nevada-run program to help survivors of the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
