From a recent Las Vegas Review Journal column;
Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta is about to get a scathing critique, as a law review article for the prestigious Northwestern Law School in Chicago examines her election in 2006 and calls her unqualified for the job.

While on the District Court, Saitta "was the most reversed District Court Judge in Nevada and was an extremely inefficient lower court judge who had not published a single opinion or academic article," wrote Bronson Bills, a law clerk for a federal judge in Utah.

"Moreover, not only was Saitta unqualified for the Supreme Court, she was tied to several wealthy special interest groups who sought to oust Justice (Nancy) Becker."

Bills was a law clerk for Saitta during the last seven months of 2006 and a former law clerk for Senior District Court Judge James Brennan. His article "A Penny for the Court's Thoughts? The High Price of Judicial Elections" is scheduled to appear in the Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy in January.

Nancy Saitta has been the subject of several Steve Miller articles which have pointed out her ties to such Las Vegas notables as current Federal prisoner, Rick Rizzolo, among others. I imagine that what the law review article doesn't mention is that the lower certain people in town score on the Dante's Inferno Test (the test scores the participant as to which circle of Hell he or she belongs), the higher they rise in politics and power.