Felix James Pérez Camacho is an American politician and businessman who served as the 7th Governor of Guam from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party of Guam,he had previously served as a six-term senator in the Guam Legislature from 1993 to 2003.
Proposition 200,the "Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act",was an Arizona state initiative passed in 2004 that basically requires:(a) persons to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote;(b) voters to present a photo identification before receiving a ballot at the polling place;and (c) state and local agencies to verify the identity and eligibility,based on immigration status,of applicants for non-federally mandated public benefits. The proposition also makes it a misdemeanor for public officials to fail to report violations of U.S. immigration law by applicants for those public benefits and permits private lawsuits by any resident to enforce its provisions related to public benefits. The requirement to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote was later ruled invalid in federal court.
Ricardo Jerome "Ricky" Bordallo was an American politician and businessman,who served two terms as the 2nd and 4th Governor of Guam with Lieutenant Governor Rudy Sablan from 1975 to 1979,and with Lieutenant Governor Edward Diego Reyes from 1983 to 1987. A member of the Democratic Party of Guam,Bordallo previously served as a Senator in the Guam Legislature from 1957 to 1971.
Guam elects on the territorial level a governor and a legislature with the governor elected for a four-year term by the people. The Legislature of Guam has fifteen members elected at large in an open primary for two year terms.
Carlos Garcia Camacho was an American politician noted for being the first elected Governor of Guam,serving in the position from 1971 to 1975. A member of the Republican Party,he had previously served as the last appointed Governor of Guam from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon. Prior to this,he was a member of the Guam Legislature.
The Republican Party of Guam,commonly referred to as Guam GOP,is a political party in Guam affiliated with the United States Republican Party.
The Democratic Party of Guam is a political party in Guam affiliated with the U.S. Democratic Party. Its origins lie in the Popular Party,which was the only political party on Guam until 1956.
Benjamin Joseph Franquez "B. J." Cruz is a Chamorro lawyer,jurist,and politician who served as the Speaker of the 34th Guam Legislature from 2017 to 2018 and as Vice Speaker from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served in the Guam Legislature from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2018. He was Chief Justice of the Guam Supreme Court from 1999 to 2001. In September 2018,Cruz was elected to serve as Public Auditor of Guam.
General elections were held in Guam on November 7,2006,in order to elect the governor,all 15 seats in the Legislature and the federal delegate. There was also a double referendum on legalise slot machines at racing tracks and raising the age at which citizens could purchase and consume alcohol to 21.
The Government of Guam (GovGuam) is a presidential representative democratic system,whereby the president is the head of state and the governor is head of government,and of a multi-party system. Guam is an organized,unincorporated territory of the United States with policy relations between Guam and the US under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs.
Alicia Anne Garrido Limtiaco is a former United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. She was sworn in on June 21,2010,and served until March 10,2017. She was previously tenth Attorney General of Guam,serving from January 3,2007,to June 21,2010. Limtiaco also ran as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Guam in the 2018 gubernatorial election as the running mate of senator Frank Aguon Jr,in the Democratic gubernatorial primaries.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) was a nonprofit organization active in the United States from 2009 through 2015. The organization was established to support the plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry,a federal lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8 under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. AFER retained former United States Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and David Boies to lead the legal team representing the plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8.
Paul McDonald Calvo was a Guamanian politician who served as the 3rd Governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983. Before his accession to the governorship,Calvo served in the Guam Legislature from 1971 to 1975. He was a member of the Republican Party of Guam.
Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management,824 F. Supp. 2d 968,was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff,Karen Golinski,challenged the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),which defined,for the purposes of federal law,marriage as being between one man and one woman,and spouse as a husband or wife of the opposite sex.
A general election was held in Guam on Tuesday,November 6,2018. Voters in Guam chose their governor,their non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,attorney general,public auditor,as well as all fifteen members of the territorial legislature. The election coincides with the United States mid-term elections.
Joaquin Camacho Arriola was an American attorney and Democratic Party of Guam politician in Guam. Arriola served as a senator in the Guam Legislature from 1955 to 1959 and as a senator in and Speaker of the Guam Legislature from 1967 to 1971,ran for Governor of Guam in 1974,and was the husband of former senator in the Guam Legislature Elizabeth P. Arriola.
Leevin Taitano Camacho is a Chamorro lawyer who served as fourteenth attorney general of Guam. He was elected on November 6,2018,defeating former attorney general Douglas Moylan with 67% of the vote. Inaugurated on January 7,2019,Camacho succeeded Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson.
Limtiaco v. Camacho (2007),549 U.S. 483,is a case of the United States Supreme Court which handled a complex taxation dispute between two Guamanian politicians—Douglas B. Moylan,Guam's first elected Attorney General,and Felix P. Camacho,then-Governor of Guam—involving the proper interpretation of the Guam Organic Act. Guam,an unincorporated territory of the United States,is governed by this Organic Act,a United States federal law passed in 1950;much case law in the territory is based on its interpretation.
James Camacho "Jim" Moylan is an American politician serving as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam. He became a member of the Guam Legislature in 2019 and was elected to the U.S House of Representatives in the 2022 United States midterm elections.
General elections were held in Guam on November 8,2022. Voters in Guam chose their governor,non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,attorney general,and all fifteen members of the territorial legislature. The election coincided with the 2022 United States elections.
