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.
Eric Stephen Schmitt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Schmitt served from 2017 to 2019 as the 46th State Treasurer of Missouri and from 2019 to 2023 as the 43rd Missouri Attorney General.
The Thomas More Society is a conservative Roman Catholic public-interest law firm based in Chicago. The group has been engaged in many "culture war" issues,promoting its anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage beliefs through litigation. The society filed cases as part of Donald Trump's failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election,in which Trump was defeated.
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the eighth district and as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
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.
Patrick James Morrisey is an American politician and attorney who is the governor-elect of West Virginia. He has served 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.
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.
Herbert H. Slatery III is an American attorney from the state of Tennessee. A Republican,he served as the Attorney General of Tennessee from 2014 to 2022.
Leslie Carol Rutledge is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 21st lieutenant governor of Arkansas since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,she was previously the 56th attorney general of Arkansas from 2015 to 2023.
Theodore Paul Budd is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator for North Carolina since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district from 2017 to 2023.
Jason Richard Ravnsborg is an American attorney and politician. A Republican,he served as Attorney General of South Dakota from 2019 until his removal in 2022. Ravnsborg ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014,losing in the Republican primary to former Governor Mike Rounds,who won the general election.
Ashley Brooke Moody is an American attorney and politician serving as the attorney general of Florida since January 2019. Moody previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney and a circuit court judge in Hillsborough County.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Texas was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Texas voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,incumbent President Donald Trump,and running mate,Vice President Mike Pence,against the Democratic Party's nominee,former Vice President Joe Biden,and his running mate,California Senator Kamala Harris. The state of Texas had 38 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Members of the United States Republican Party have reacted differently to Republican president Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 United States presidential election,with many publicly supporting them,many remaining silent,and a few publicly denouncing them. Trump claimed to have won the election,and made many claims of election fraud. By December 11,2020,126 out of 196 Republican members of the House backed a lawsuit filed in the United States Supreme Court supported by nineteen Republican state attorneys general seeking to subvert the election and overturn the election results. The Trump campaign hired the Berkeley Research Group to investigate whether there had been voter fraud. The researchers found nothing,and the consultancy reported this to Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows on a conference call in the final days of the year,before the attack on the Capitol.
After the 2020 United States presidential election,the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 62 lawsuits contesting election processes,vote counting,and the vote certification process in 9 states and the District of Columbia.
After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election,Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election,with support from his campaign,proxies,political allies,and many of his supporters. These efforts culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack by Trump supporters in an attempted self-coup d'état. Trump and his allies used the "big lie" propaganda technique to promote claims that had been proven false and conspiracy theories asserting the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines,electoral fraud and an international conspiracy. Trump pressed Department of Justice leaders to challenge the results and publicly state the election was corrupt. However,the attorney general,director of National Intelligence,and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency –as well as some Trump campaign staff –dismissed these claims. State and federal judges,election officials,and state governors also determined the claims were baseless.
Texas v. Pennsylvania,592 U.S. ___ (2020),was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in four states in which Joe Biden defeated then-incumbent President Donald Trump.
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.
In direct response to Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar and the 2020 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania,the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign launched numerous lawsuits contesting the purview of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the election processes of Pennsylvania. All of these have either been dismissed or dropped. The last two remaining cases were dismissed without comment by the Supreme Court on February 22,2021. On April 19,2021,more than five months after the November 3,2020 election,the Supreme Court declined to hear the outstanding case brought by former Republican congressional candidate Jim Bognet,dismissing it without comment.
Lawrence J. (Larry) Joseph is an American lawyer,known for his role in President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election. Since 2003,he has practiced in an independent law office,allowing him to take on cases he describes as "politically incorrect".
