Mark D. Martin is an American jurist who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 2014 through 2019. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to become Chief Justice on September 1,2014 upon the retirement of Sarah Parker. Martin was already running for the seat in the 2014 general election.
Evan Hollin Jenkins is an American politician and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia,joining the Court in 2018 and serving as chief justice in 2021. He resigned from the court on February 4,2022. He served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 2015 to 2018. He is a Republican,having switched his party affiliation from Democratic in 2013.
David Ryan Stras is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is a former Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Donald Francis McGahn II is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Donald Trump,from the day of Trump's inauguration through October 17,2018,when McGahn resigned. Previously,McGahn served on the Federal Election Commission for over five years. In November 2019,McGahn received a court order to testify before the U.S House of Representatives. In August 2020,the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 7–2 that the House can sue him to comply.
George Holmes Carley was an American lawyer and judge. From Decatur,Georgia,he served on the Supreme Court of Georgia from March 1993 until July 2012,acting as Chief Justice for the last two months of his term.
Patrick James Morrisey is an American politician and attorney serving as the 34th Attorney General of West Virginia since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Jeffrey Vincent Brown is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a former associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump.
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 subsequently reelected. Reyes is a member of the Republican Party and 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.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
With the advice and consent of the United States Senate,the president of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States,which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States. Following his victory in the 2016 presidential election,Republican Donald Trump took office as president on January 20,2017,and faced an immediate vacancy on the Supreme Court due to the February 2016 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. During the 2016 campaign,Trump had released two lists of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. After taking office,he nominated Neil Gorsuch to succeed Scalia,and Gorsuch was confirmed in April 2017. In November 2017,five more names were added to the previous lists of potential nominees. In June 2018,Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement,creating a second vacancy on the Supreme Court. In early July 2018,Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh as his replacement;Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6,2018. Following the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18,2020,Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement on September 26,2020. Exactly a month later on October 26,2020,Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52–48.
The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6,2018. All of Texas's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat,and all of Texas's thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held March 6,2018. Convention Parties nominated their candidates at a series of conventions. County Conventions held March 17,2018,District Conventions held March 24,2018,and a State Convention held April 14,2018. At the present time there is only one Convention Party in Texas,that is the Libertarian Party. Other parties may seek to achieve ballot access.
In the 2016 United States presidential election,ten members of the Electoral College voted or attempted to vote for a candidate different from the ones to whom they were pledged. Three of these votes were invalidated under the faithless elector laws of their respective states,and the elector either subsequently voted for the pledged candidate or was replaced by someone who did. Although there had been a combined total of 155 instances of individual electors voting faithlessly prior to 2016 in over two centuries of previous US presidential elections,2016 was the first election in over a hundred years in which multiple electors worked to alter the result of the election.
William McCrary "Billy" Ray II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He was previously a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Elizabeth Lee Branch is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Elizabeth "Britt" Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Nels Stefan David Peterson is an American lawyer serving as the presiding justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
This is a timeline of events from 2020 to 2022 related to investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials that are suspected of being inappropriate,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.
The following is a timeline of major events before,during,and after the 2020 United States presidential election,the 59th quadrennial United States presidential election,from November 2020 to January 2021. For prior events,see Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (2017–2019) and Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election.
With the advice and consent of the United States Senate,the president of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States,which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States. Following his victory in the 2020 presidential election,Democrat Joe Biden took office as president on January 20,2021. During the 2020 Democratic primary campaign,Biden pledged to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court,although unlike his opponent,Donald Trump,Biden did not release a specific list of potential nominees during the 2020 general election campaign.
The 2022 Texas elections were held on November 8,2022. Primary elections were held on March 1,with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote.
