Tons o' Fun showed up at the Nevada Supreme Court today to argue her constitutional challenge to judicial term limits. Judge Halverson claims that it was unconstitutional for the legislature to limit her judicial position to two years.Las Vegas Now reports:
Judge Halverson is arguing that the Nevada constitution explicitly requires judges' terms to be six years. Justices pointed out that since 1871, the Nevada legislature has been setting shorter terms for new offices, including judges. That is done to synchronize election cycles.
Judge Halverson argued just because it has been done in the past does not mean it should be allowed to continue today.
Then Justice James Hardesty became my new hero:
[Justice Hardesty] then suggested one of the options would be to invalidate --or 'vacate' -- Judge Halverson's office along with other similarly situated judges.
Justice Hardesty called Halverson out for simply appealing so she can keep her seat. He laid it out there that if the legislature unconstitutionally created her judicial seat, the Court's shouldn't revise the position to six years, but should eliminate the unconstitutional position. Points to Justice Hardesty for throwing Halverson's strict interpretation line of crap back in her face.
Video of the hearing is available here.
Halverson obviously overlooked an important legal provision: The Law of Unintended Consequences.
ReplyDeleteShe may have just argued herself out of a job.
BTW, I know “the camera puts on 10 pounds”, but is it just me, or has Halverson gained more like a hundred pounds since she was last photographed?