LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A long-running legal battle that at one point called into question the legality of the Nevada Ethics Commission appears to have ended with a settlement.

The commission, acting in response to two complaints filed in 2021, accused Gov. Joe Lombardo — a career police officer and two-term elected sheriff — of violating ethics laws by campaigning using pictures and videos of him in uniform or depicting his badge.

Specifically, the commission said the use of government property improperly conferred a benefit on Lombardo as he ran for governor. (Lombardo won the 2022 election.)

Lombardo fought the commission's verdict, and suggested the commission itself might be in violation of the Nevada Constitution's separation of powers doctrine , since four of its eight members a

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