Clark County GOP official facing domestic violence charge

Apr. 17—The chairman of the Clark County Republican Party is facing a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, according to county records.

Chairman Jesse Law, who is also running for a seat in the Nevada Assembly, was arrested Sunday, records show.

The weekend arrest adds to Law's legal troubles.

He is one of six Nevada Republicans accused of participating in a scheme that would have falsely given the state's electoral votes to former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

They were each charged by a Clark County grand jury in December with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument, category C and D felonies, respectively. The group have filed petitions to move the case out of Clark County and have it dismissed.

The charges stem from the phony ceremony they participated in to allocate Nevada's electoral college votes to Trump and not President Joe Biden, who won the state by approximately 34,000 votes.

The Nevada Republican Party sent the document — titled "Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Nevada" — to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.Republicans in a handful of other states went through a similar process. The fake-elector meeting here and in five other states had no legal standing.

Nevada's real electors had already certified the state's election that same day in a remote ceremony, awarding all six of Nevada's electoral votes to Biden.

The Sun has submitted a request with Metro Police for the arrest report in Law's domestic violence incident. We are reaching out to him for comment.

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