Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 | 4:11 p.m.
Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law said today he is running for the state Assembly, just hours before the Nevada Attorney General’s Office announced his indictment by a grand jury stemming from his involvement in falsely certifying former President Donald Trump the Nevada winner of the 2020 election.
Law, a 21-year Nevada resident, former member of the Trump administration and a self-proclaimed “anti-tax fiscal conservative,” is running for Assembly District 2.
The seat was held during the last legislative session by Republican Heidi Kasama, who is running for U.S. House in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District.
In a news release announcing his candidacy, Law touted his ability to energize voters and cited record-high Republican turnout from the 2022 midterms in Clark County.
He said that turnout directly contributed to first-term Gov. Joe Lombardo’s win last year.
“I am proud to launch my campaign to keep Assembly District 2 in Republican hands,” Law said.
He identified his policy objectives as lowering the cost of living, implementing “common-sense” school choice reform and reducing the tax burden resulting from Nevada’s “bloated” bureaucracy.
“A vote for me ensures that District 2 has a strong, principled conservative to represent the district,” Law said.
Law states on his LinkedIn account that he served as chief strategy officer and White House liaison under Trump to the Export-Import Bank. He served in that role from 2017 to 2018.
Law was elected chairman of the Clark County GOP in 2021 and won reelection in January with endorsements from Trump and Lombardo.
Law also worked for Trump’s transition team as well as the Trump campaign, according to a ProPublica database that tracked Trump administration staffers. Before that, Law worked as a consultant and government affairs advisor for several consulting firms.
Law on Tuesday was indicted by a Clark County grand jury over his involvement with a so-called false elector scheme.
The indictment came less than a month after Politico reported Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford was investigating the group of Republicans who attempted to derail President Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Trump.
Law and five others were charged with offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument, category C and D felonies, respectively, according to court documents.
Law could not be immediately reached for comment.
About a dozen Republicans met on Dec. 14, 2020, in Carson City and conducted a fake ceremony to certify electoral votes for Trump.
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.
The meeting of fake electors had no legal standing.
Nevada’s real electors had already certified the state’s election the same day in a remote ceremony, awarding all six of Nevada’s electoral votes to Biden.
