In re Halverson

OPINION

By the Court, Maupin, C. J.:

INTRODUCTION

This appeal raises several issues of first impression concerning a rarely used but formidable power available to the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline: its constitutional and statutory authority to temporarily suspend a judge, before conducting a formal hearing with accompanying due process protections, when the Commission determines that the judge poses a “substantial threat of serious harm to the public or to the administration of justice.”2

In considering this appeal, we resolve several novel issues concerning the procedures to be used…