Michael Eugene Sodrel is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district from 2005 to 2007. Sodrel launched another run against incumbent Democratic Rep. Baron Hill in 2010 –his fifth straight run for Congress in the ninth district. However,he lost the Republican nomination to Bloomington attorney Todd Young,who won the general election.
Theodore Edward Rokita is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32,he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
Steve Carter is an American politician and businessman who served as the forty-first Attorney General of Indiana from January 1,2001 to January 12,2009.
Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican,Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate,where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011,and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011,after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Indiana since October 6,2014. The state had previously restricted marriage to different-sex couples by statute in 1986. Legislation passed in 1997 denied recognition to same-sex relationships established in other jurisdictions. A lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples,Baskin v. Bogan,won a favorable ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on June 25,2014. Until the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay of the district court's ruling on June 27,most Indiana counties issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling in Baskin on September 4. A ruling in Bowling v. Pence stated that the state must recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state and the decision was stayed until the Seventh Circuit ruled on the merits in similar cases. It also stated that the ruling would remain stayed if the circuit court stayed its decision in the related cases.
Michael A. Delph is a former Republican member of the Indiana State Senate representing the 29th district from 2005 to 2018. He is considered to be a "socially conservative Republican," who has courted support from the Tea Party movement.
Todd Christopher Young is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Indiana,a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,Young previously served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district. He was elected to the United States Senate in the November 8,2016,general election,succeeding retiring Republican Dan Coats. From 2019 to 2021,he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Young was reelected in 2022.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,and queer (LGBTQ) rights in the U.S. state of Indiana have been shaped by both state and federal law. These evolved from harsh penalties established early in the state's history to the decriminalization of same-sex activity in 1977 and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2014. Indiana was subject to an April 2017 federal court ruling that discrimination based on sexual orientation is tantamount to discrimination on account of "sex",as defined by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The ruling establishes sexual orientation as a protected characteristic in the workplace,forbidding unfair discrimination,although Indiana state statutes do not include sexual orientation or gender identity among its categories of discrimination.
Alan McCrory Wilson is an American lawyer,politician,and a member of the South Carolina National Guard serving as the 51st Attorney General of South Carolina since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Luther Johnson Strange III is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018. He was appointed to fill that position after it was vacated by Sen. Jeff Sessions upon Sessions's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General.
Jean Leising is an American politician from the State of Indiana. She is a Republican member of the Indiana Senate,representing the 42nd District from 1989 to 1996 and from 2008 to the present. She was Assistant Majority Whip from 1992 to 1996.
Patrick James Morrisey is an American politician and attorney serving as the 34th Attorney General of West Virginia since 2013. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected to the position in 2012,becoming the first Republican to serve in the role since 1933. Running for the United States Senate in 2018,Morrisey won the Republican Party nomination,but was narrowly defeated by incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Manchin in the November general election. He is his party's nominee in the 2024 West Virginia gubernatorial election.
Sean David Reyes is an American lawyer and politician who has been the Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow,Reyes was reelected. Reyes is a member of the Republican Party and is a vocal and longtime supporter of Donald Trump. He has served as a county,state,and national delegate for the Republican Party and a member of the Utah Republican Party's State Central Committee.
Baskin v. Bogan,the lead Indiana case challenging that state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples,was filed in federal district court on March 12,2014,naming several government officials as defendants. Chief Judge Richard L. Young found for the plaintiffs on June 25. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the district court ruling in a unanimous decision on September 4.
Mark Brnovich is an American attorney and politician who was the 26th Attorney General of Arizona from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was an unsuccessful candidate for its nomination in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Arizona. He is married to Susan Brnovich,a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Indiana Senate Bill 101,titled the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA),is a law in the U.S. state of Indiana,which allows individuals and companies to assert as a defense in legal proceedings that their exercise of religion has been,or is likely to be,substantially burdened.
Joseph Albert "Trey" Hollingsworth III is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Hollingsworth served on the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Hollingsworth was the vice ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection,Entrepreneurship,and Capital Markets and a member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Indiana on November 8,2016. Elections were held for President of the United States,United States Senator,Governor of Indiana,two of Indiana's executive officers and all of Indiana's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Curtis Theophilus Hill Jr. is an American prosecutor from the Republican Party who served as the 43rd Attorney General of Indiana from 2017 to 2021.
Andrew Bailey is an American attorney and politician. A Republican,he has served as Missouri Attorney General since appointment by Governor Mike Parson in January 2023.
