Adam Paul Laxalt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019.
32 Facts About Adam Laxalt
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Adam Laxalt graduated from Georgetown University and its law school before working as an aide to then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John R Bolton and Virginia US Senator John Warner.
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Adam Laxalt worked as a lawyer in private practice and was a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps from 2005 to 2010.
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Adam Laxalt unsuccessfully ran for governor of Nevada in 2018, losing to Democrat Steve Sisolak.
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Adam Laxalt co-chaired Donald Trump's 2020 unsuccessful reelection campaign in Nevada.
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Adam Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada, the son of Pete Domenici, a Republican US Senator from New Mexico, and Michelle Adam Laxalt.
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Adam Laxalt is the grandson of former Republican Nevada Governor and US Senator Paul Laxalt.
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Adam Laxalt's parents did not publicly acknowledge his paternity until 2013.
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At that time, Domenici acknowledged that Adam Laxalt was his son and was born as a result of an extramarital affair.
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Adam Laxalt graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with a Juris Doctor degree in 2005.
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Adam Laxalt spent five years in the United States Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps.
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Adam Laxalt had postings at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy and in Iraq, and a stint at the US Naval Academy as an assistant law professor.
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Adam Laxalt was sworn in as attorney general of Nevada on January 5,2015.
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Adam Laxalt joined lawsuits against the Obama administration over a US Department of Labor regulation to protect certain employees' right to overtime pay, and over Obama's executive action creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans programs.
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Adam Laxalt signed onto two lawsuits supporting bans on the most commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure.
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Pro-choice Republican Governor Brian Sandoval's office said it was not consulted before Adam Laxalt signed Nevada onto the Texas abortion ban brief.
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Adam Laxalt signed onto a California lawsuit to support keeping secret the identities of political donors, including one of his biggest political donors, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, backed by Charles and David Koch.
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Adam Laxalt opposed a multi-state investigation into ExxonMobil's alleged role in downplaying climate change, condemning it as an attempt to stifle an "ongoing public policy debate" over human-caused global warming.
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Adam Laxalt took legal action to keep fraud investigators from scrutinizing groups connected to the Koch network, which went on to spend $2.5 million to support Adam Laxalt's gubernatorial campaign.
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Adam Laxalt created the Office of Military Legal Assistance, which provided free legal services to veterans.
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Adam Laxalt was the Republican nominee for governor of Nevada in the 2018 election, defeating four other candidates to win the nomination.
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Adam Laxalt lost to the Democratic nominee, Clark County Commission chair Steve Sisolak, in the general election; Sisolak become the first Democrat to win the governorship in 20 years.
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Adam Laxalt was endorsed by Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro in November 2017.
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Adam Laxalt faced scrutiny for initially declining to disavow Antinoro's campaign support.
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In July 2018, Adam Laxalt released an investigative report into Antinoro and announced that he would not pursue criminal charges.
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Adam Laxalt presented a list of 3,062 voters he said were non-residents who voted absentee in Clark County.
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Adam Laxalt claimed that 200,000 mail-in ballot votes were verified by machine only and that these machines were unable to match signatures on ballots to those on file; in fact, ballots that could not be assessed by machines were verified by people.
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Adam Laxalt announced his candidacy with a video in which he said that "the radical left, rich elites, woke corporations, academia and the media" were "taking over America".
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In 1997, Adam Laxalt was arrested for driving under the influence.
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Adam Laxalt has acknowledged having a drinking problem in his teens.
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Adam Laxalt received treatment at the Hazelden Foundation and says he has been sober since the age of 19.
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Adam Laxalt is married to Jaime, with whom he has four children.