Nevada Governor Lombardo has taken legal action by filing a lawsuit challenging the authority of the ethics commission to censure and impose fines on the former Clark County sheriff.
filed a lawsuit challenging the state ethics commission’s authority to censure and fine the former Clark County sheriff for using his publicly issued sheriff's uniform and badge during his 2022 gubernatorial campaign.
In July, the Nevada Commission on Ethics found Lombardo guilty of violating ethics law after his campaign posted four photos of him wearing his county-issued sheriff’s badge on campaign materials. That was found to have violated a statute that bars the use of government resources to secure a private interest without warrant for each image or video.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Carson City District Court, attempts to circumvent the state ethics commission’s authority to hand out such fines,principles in the state constitution. Lombardo’s lawyers argue that this is because the state legislature appoints half of the commission’s members. It also attempts to permanently bar the commission from conducting any investigations or penalties over the governor.The Nevada governor has filed a lawsuit challenging ethics a censure and a fine over the use of a badge on a campaign trail."The Ethics Law improperly deprives the Governor of authority to appoint all commission members or otherwise oversee the commission," states the lawsuit, which was first reported by The Nevada Independent.
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