The Ohio Republican Party is the Ohio affiliate of the Republican Party. It was founded in Columbus,Ohio,in 1854. It is currently the state's favored party,controlling the majority of Ohio's U.S. House seats,one of its two U.S. Senate seats,the governorship,and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Larry Lee Householder is a former American politician who was convicted in the largest bribery corruption scandal in Ohio’s history. Mr. Householder was the state representative for Ohio's 72nd district and was a two-time Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party. Householder represented the same district from 1997 to 2004,including as speaker from 2001 to 2004. In 2016,he was elected to the Statehouse again,and on January 7,2019,he was re-elected to serve as speaker with support from Ohio House Democrats,including current United States Congresswoman Emilia Sykes. His district included Coshocton and Perry counties,as well as about half of Licking County.
Rene Alexander Acosta is an American attorney and politician,who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16,2017,and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27,2017.
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was President Donald Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.
Matthew John Dolan is an American politician and lawyer who is a member of the Ohio Senate from the 24th district,since 2017. He previously was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.
Randolph Daniel Moss is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Matthew "Matt" Borges is an American politician,and the former Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party.
Justin Herdman is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2017 to 2021.
Jessie Kong Liu is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. She previously worked as deputy general counsel at the U.S. Treasury and served at the Justice Department. In 2020,she joined the law firm Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher &Flom as a partner.
Thomas Lee Kirsch II is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since December 2020. He was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Indiana from October 2017 to December 2020.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is a partner at the law firm Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson.
David Cleveland Joseph is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He was previously United States Attorney for the same district.
Chad Andrew Readler is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a principal deputy and former acting assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division.
Nicholas Andrew Trutanich is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada from 2019 to 2021. Prior to becoming a U.S. Attorney,he served as the Chief of Staff for the Nevada Attorney General's Office.
Stephanie Lou Haines is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
This is a timeline of events from 2020 to 2022 related to investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections,both before and after July 2016,until November 8,2016,election day,the transition,the first and second halves of 2017,the first and second halves of 2018,and the first and second halves of 2019.
Michael Rafi Sherwin is an attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2020 to 2021. He was appointed by Attorney General William Barr during the Trump administration. He is partner at the law firm Kobre &Kim where he handles international government investigations.
The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal (2020) is a political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that electric utility company FirstEnergy paid roughly $60 million to Generation Now,a 501(c)(4) organization purportedly controlled by Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion bailout for the nuclear power operator. It was described as "likely the largest bribery,money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the state of Ohio" by U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers,who charged Householder and four others with racketeering on July 21,2020. According to prosecutors,FirstEnergy poured millions into the campaigns of 21 candidates during the 2018 Ohio House of Representatives election,which ultimately helped Householder replace Ryan Smith as Republican House speaker.
Andre Damian Williams Jr. is an American lawyer who is the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is the first African-American U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Kenneth Lee Parker is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio since 2021.
