Nevada Republican Senate Minority Leader, Dr. Robin Titus, began a Monday legislative committee meeting by claiming that Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, a Republican, was “locked” out of the chamber at the end of the 2025 legislative session.

KTNV broadcaster Steve Sebelius wrote on X that the “chaos” particularly when it comes to the “shifting” of “the membership from a 3-3 split to a 4-2 split.”

“Titus indicates Republicans will not seek legal relief, since courts would likely punt the issue back to lawmakers as a purely ‘political question’ best resolved by lawmakers. (Spoiler alert: She’s probably right.) Instead, she says, GOP will fight in [the] court of public opinion,” Sebelius wrote.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, a Democrat, called the claim “100% untrue,” Sebelius said. Anthony was not locked out of the chamber and she attacked Titus’ “statement as out of order.”

But veteran newsman and Nevada Independent CEO John Rolston called the GOP claims absurd.

“I wasn’t there, but I have covered many legislative sessions,” he said on X. “It’s nearly impossible for a LG to be locked out of the chamber. There is a sergeant-at-arms. It’s laughable and pathetic. Why wasn’t he making like Benjamin Braddock and banging on the doors, screaming to be let in?”

Sen. Ira Hasen, a Republican, later said in the hearing that he observed the Senate sergeant-at-arms “blocking” Anthony from the chamber, said Sebelius. “That’s when he first made a point of order, he said.”

Rolston questioned that claim too, replying, “No offense to Ira, but that seems…unlikely.”

Sebelius explained that at the time he wasn’t outside of the chamber but he found “it odd if the presiding officer was excluded from the session. But if I remember correctly, Dick Cheney said the vice president exists in both the legislative and executive branches, so perhaps they excluded the executive part?”

Rolston agreed it might be the best theory.