Opinion, By SA Barket
Sigal Chattah was nominated to be the interim US Attorney for the District of Nevada on Friday, March 28, 2025. According to news reports, she is to begin her interim term on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Her nomination came late in the afternoon on a Friday, Eastern Daylight Savings Time.
The timing of this announcement is notable. That’s when news that gets pushed out to major media outlets gets buried, overlooked. It’s well known in the PR industry, that if you have bad news to release, make sure it goes out late on a Friday afternoon. Usually, those making the announcement don’t want too much attention on the news. And in this case, there’s a reason for it, and there’s reason for concern. This announcement is bad news for Nevada.
This also is the kind of story that seems to make people’s eyes glaze over.
Sigal Chattah? US Attorney? District of Nevada? Who cares?
You should.
Why?
Because the job of a US Attorney for the District of Nevada (there are 93 other such appointments across the country) is to to prosecute federal cases and defend the US in civil litigation. These appointments carry great power, and the nominees must be people of integrity, sharp decision-making, clear judgment, and of high ethical and moral character. Sigal Chattah is not any of those things, in my opinion. And this website points out the many reasons she should not be installed in this position.
Her integrity is highly questionable. Her character is highly questionable. Her judgment is highly questionable. Her relationships are highly suspect. Her decision making is questionable. She can be blinded by her own sense of self-righteousness. She just wants to win, facts be damned. Her connection with the criminal element goes far beyond the mere capacity of doing her job. With her, it’s personal.
The power a US Attorney has is immense within the judicial system. Each US attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer in their specific jurisdiction and can supervise dozens of Assistant US Attorneys.
These US attorneys are nominated by the president — in this case, President Donald Trump — in districts across the country. The District of Nevada encompasses the whole state. The offices of the US attorney’s are part of the Department of Justice (DOJ) currently headed by Pam Bondi. They serve at the pleasure of the president and serve four year terms.
They often are referred to as federal prosecutors. They have the authority to investigate people, file formal criminal charges, issue subpoenas, engage in plea bargaining discussions, grant immunity to witnesses and — in some cases — to accused criminals.
With that kind of power over citizens in their jurisdictions, character and integrity of the individual charged with the awesome responsibility of the office must be unimpeachable. When it comes to Sigal Chattah, that’s not the case, in my opinion.
Just read through the many facts and questions we’ve brought to light here on this website. Read through the posts. Think about the person who was just nominated to be an interim US Attorney for the District of Nevada and see if you come to the same conclusions that I have — that Sigal Chattah is not the person for this job.
There seems to be no such thing as nuance with her.
Sigal Chattah has worked her way up the hierarchy of the Nevada state GOP chain of command, and she thinks her you-know-what doesn’t stink. And the people around her in the higher levels of the Nevada GOP don’t want to mess with her. They don’t want to get in her way for fear of being run over. She’s like that — like a bowling ball rolling down Las Vegas Boulevard, with no sense of the reality around her. She’s rolling, she has her path ahead of her, and nothing will stop her.
Or so she thinks.
“Grossly unfit,” is how Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Daniele Monroe-Moreno put it. We can’t argue with that.