{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Lamport
|image=lamportovalfinal.png
|office = 21st Chief Justice of the United States
|term_start = July 18, 2019
|term_end = January 18, 2021
|nominator = [[LOTR]]
|predecessor = [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]]
|successor = [[Thanos May|Thanos]]
|office1 = 50th President of the United States
|vicepresident1 = [[Patty]]
|term_start1 = March 3, 2019
|term_end1 = July 12, 2019
|predecessor1 = [[Politophile]]
|successor1 = [[LOTR]]
|office2 = 79th Secretary of the Treasury
|nominator2 = [[Politophile]]
|term_start2 = November 26, 2018
|term_end2 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor2 = [[ComHack447|ComHack]]
|successor2 = [[Jeb!|Jeb]]
|office3 = Senator from the North
|term_start3 = October 31, 2018
|term_end3 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor3 = [[NotAName]]
|successor3 = [[Justin (DF)|Justin]]
|office4 = 6th Chairman of the Republican Party
|term_start4 = September 11, 2018
|term_end4 = January 6, 2019
|predecessor4 = [[Ronald Reagan II]]
|successor4 = [[LOTR]]
|office5 = 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives
|term_start5 = August 31, 2018
|term_end5 = October 31, 2018
|predecessor5 = [[Butterlands]]
|successor5 = [[Peanut]]
|office6 = Member of the House of Representatives from the North’s At Large District
|term_start6 = July 28, 2018
|term_end6 = October 31, 2018}}'''Lamport''' is a retired [[North|Northern]] politician and jurist in the United States who campaigned as a committed [[Republican Party|Republican]] on the libertarian wing of the party. Soon after being elected Chairman, he re-aligned the party and conservative movement at large in a libertarian direction and established the [[Libertarian consensus|consensus]] that would define the political geography in 2019 and 2020. After serving 12 months in elected office, from the House to the Presidency, Lamport was nominated and confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States, becoming the first politician to head to legislative, executive and judicial branch of government. By some, he is called “the late emancipator” on account of his leadership to abolish the income tax, end 18 years of perpetual war and pass multiple landmark constitutional amendments on civil rights. To those who give a less positive assessment, on the other hand, the [[Lamport Administration]] represented a dangerous and unprecedented reduction in the size and scope of the federal government and the military power it can project abroad. His [[Lamport Court|tenure]] on the Supreme Court is regarded as originalist, skeptical of federal and executive power and punctuated by willingness to challenge long-held precedent. Recognized as one of the most consequential public figures since 2018, with 30 months in legislative, executive and judicial office, Lamport retired to the Virgin Islands in 2021.

=='''Philosophy'''==
Lamport and his political thinking are characterized by social liberalism, economic conservatism, civil libertarianism, military non-interventionism and Georgism. As a Georgist, he is dedicated to a single tax in which land value, and only land value, is taxed. In pursuit of that goal, as President, Lamport cut $300 billion in spending, abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation tax and implemented a land value tax. While he reduced the corporate tax rate during his term, a single tax would be achieved a year later by Governor and President [[Valerie]], his Chief of Staff, first in [[Jefferson]] and then in the United States. His promotion of non-interventionism planted the seed that, in time, saw the United States withdraw from the Middle East, disarm thousands of nuclear weapons, leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and advocate against the United Nations veto. The libertarian economic agenda Lamport promoted was followed by successive Administrations, left and right, and represented a major part of the [[Libertarian consensus|consensus]] between March, 2019 and October, 2020. While opposition began to emerge in October, most academics consider the consensus "broken" in December, some 22 months later, when a $560 billion deficit was signed into law during the coronavirus pandemic.

=='''Party'''==
Lamport was elected to the [[Republican Party|Republican National Committee]] in August, 2018, while serving in the House of Representatives. When [[Ronald Reagan II]] retired in September, he was elected Chairman and acclaimed to a second term in November. His first decision as Chairman was to end the Republican-[[Progressive Party|Progressive]] coalition. The electoral success of the party is credited by some to his leadership to focus on economic and foreign policy and support, rather than oppose, more progressive social policy like gay marriage and criminal justice reform. Having achieved the first Republican majority in the federal government, Lamport decided against seeking a third term. He was succeeded by Vice Chairman [[LOTR]] in January, 2019. Lamport was soon awarded an honorary seat on the National Committee, held until his nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court in July, when he resigned his membership of the party to guarantee his independence on the bench.

=='''Congress'''==
In July, 2018, a special election was called in the [[At Large|at large district]] and Lamport was sent to the [[House of Representatives]] at the middle point of the term. He gained national attention by forming an ''ad hoc'' coalition with Speaker [[Butterlands]] and insisting on a balanced budget. Together, they amended out the deficit and passed the first balanced budget in a generation. Re-elected in August, despite being in the Republican minority, he was unanimously elected Speaker. During his second term, Lamport passed legislation to repeal the death penalty, repeal the draft, repeal the mandate to print money to balance the budget and assert the constitutional duty of the legislature, rather than the executive, to declare war. Over the next 18 months, between October, 2018 and April, 2020, he was the only Speaker to serve a whole term: this peculiarity is called the [[The Curse of Lamport|Lamport curse]]. During the same period, he won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court when the attempt by Governor [[IndyPrez|Indy]] to nationalize all private business in the state was struck down.

He was nominated to run against Senator [[NotAName]] in October and won with 53% of the vote. In the [[Senate]], Lamport passed legislation to re-enfranchise more than 6 million felons on the completion of their sentence or parole, repeal the tip tax, abolish civil forfeiture, recognize territorial self-determination, close the base in Guantanamo Bay, prohibit the last constitutional vestige of slavery, "as punishment for crime," and guarantee the right of habeas corpus without the possibility of suspension by the government. While in the minority, he was instrumental in taking down radical [[Progressive Party|Progressive]] legislation, best represented by the $3 trillion "Medicare for All" package which had already passed the House. When Senator [[Apex]] was shot in a failed assassination plot in December, Lamport was elected Acting President pro tempore and held the gavel until his return to office. Over the 7 months he served in Congress, Lamport voted down more than $3.2 trillion in new spending. He and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] are widely recognized as the most prominent and formidable Senators of their political era. On his election to the Presidency, Representative [[Justin (DF)|Justin]] was appointed to succeed him in the Senate.

=='''Cabinet'''==
Having established a political consensus to favor a balanced budget, Lamport was nominated as Secretary of the Treasury by President [[Politophile]] and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in November, 2018. He managed the passage of the second balanced budget and planned the introduction of the land appreciation tax: this would later prove an important step in the tax reform he would achieve as President. Lamport and Attorney General [[Yimir]] took a leading role in the [[Cabinet]], well beyond the management of their Departments, and they gave new life to an institution many believed had become a ''de facto'' sinecure.

=='''White House'''==
Acclaimed as the Republican nominee for [[President of the United States|President]] in February, 2019, Lamport campaigned against Representative [[Sparkle]], Senator [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]] and Senator [[NotAName]] in the general election. Winning every state and more than 70% of the electoral college, he was inaugurated in March with [[Patty]] as Vice President. The [[Lamport Administration]] was noted for passing more legislation and issuing more orders and proclamations than the last three Administrations put together.

Lamport abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation land, implemented a 6% land value tax, cut the corporate tax by 25% to achieve the lowest rate since 1936, cancelled $300 billion in public spending and began to pay down the debt for the first time in a generation. Beyond economic policy, his Administration ended the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, withdrew more than 20,000 troops posted outside the United States, repealed the Patriot Act, abolished the Department of Homeland Security, suspended government-to-government aid to dictatorships, regulated the intelligence community, negotiated a landmark treaty with the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan and North Korea to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world by 50% and returned Guantanamo Bay to Cuba. He also reinstated the federal parole system, banned private imprisonment, de-nationalized the rail and tele-communications sector, which had been seized by President [[Poke]], protected national parks against exploitation and granted limited rights to apes, monkeys, elephants, whales, dolphins, octopuses and squids. He was the first elected President in 40 years, since Jimmy Carter, not subject to any attempt to impeach.

Near the end of his Presidency, Lamport and Governor [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] were shot by a neo-fascist militia in Nashville. During the course of his treatment, amid concern he may die, the Cabinet invoked the 25th amendment and Vice President [[Patty]] served as Acting President until he could return to office the following week. While Lamport and his Administration were popular, [[Valeriegate]] saw a number of people criticize the way in which "pressure" was used to ensure the passage of his legislative agenda. Some called for the dismissal of his Chief of Staff, however, he resisted and later signed the bill that caused the controversy into law. Noting how the authorization passed following September 11, 2001 was cited again and again over the next 17 years, it banned their open-ended nature and set a 2 year default.

Republicans, Progressives, Communists, Populists and Independents were all represented in his Cabinet. [[Politophile]] and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] were nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court during his Administration. Committed to seek and serve only a single term, having accomplished each campaign promise made in the election, Lamport was succeeded as President by Senator [[LOTR]] in July, while his Vice President was re-elected to a second term. On his last day in office, he pardoned Julian Assange and de-classified an unprecedented number of UFO documents.

=='''Supreme Court'''==
Nominated to the [[Supreme Court]] by his successor, President [[LOTR]], Lamport was confirmed as Chief Justice in July, 2019, with only one Senator voting against. His appointment, followed by the appointment of Associate Justice [[JMP]], [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] and [[Patty]], marked the beginning of an originalist majority on the bench for the first time in 80 years. Among less momentous judgements, he authored the opinions which restored corporate personhood as a legal concept, protected campaign donations by natural persons, reversed the "particular government program" exception to the origination clause, overturned the machine gun ban, declared the annexation of Hawaii in 1898 unconstitutional but affirmed its admission to the union in 1959, upheld the revocation of the North Atlantic Treaty and narrowed the interpretation of the interstate commerce clause by rebuking Darby and reviving the distinction between production and commerce in Carter. In a case often cited as his "favorite," he dissented against the ''a priori'' expulsion of a liberal Representative. In general, while most judgements were unanimous, the [[Lamport Court]] challenged and, in some ways, openly rejected the convention on political deference born in the aftermath of the New Deal. Most jurists agreed with his jurisprudence when questioned as nominees, however, some on the left - particularly Senator [[Epsilon Leclair|Epsilon]] - grew increasingly critical over time and even characterized the Supreme Court as “partisan.”

In this post, Lamport administered the oath of office to President [[Patty]], [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]], [[d.a.barchipelago|Barch]], [[Valerie]], [[Garland]], [[Cabin]] and [[Sandoval]]. He also presided over two impeachment trials: the first in February, 2020, where the President was convicted, and the second in September, where the Governor of Puerto Rico was acquitted. While irregular, Lamport was asked to preside over the [[Puerto Rico|Legislative Assembly]] because the new state had not yet established its own Supreme Court. During the 18 months he served as Chief Justice, he developed a form of original meaning theory called the [[Lamport proviso]]. Lamport retired in January, 2021 and was soon succeeded by Chief Judge [[Thanos May|Thanos]].

=='''Retirement'''==
In retirement, Lamport divided his time between the North and Saint Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands, where he farmed sugarcane, distilled rum and drank to excess.

=='''Honors'''==
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (October, 2019)
* [[Congressional Gold Medal]] (November, 2019)
* [[Parliamentary Medal of Unity]] (August, 2020)
* [[People's Honor Society]] (April, 2021)[[Category:Biography]]

Yimir

2021-04-12T10:39:57Z

Lamport:

People's Honor Society

2021-04-12T10:35:02Z

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Membership in the '''People's Honor Society''' is an honor established and awarded by the Governor of the North. There are two classes and the first class is the senior-most decoration of the state.

==Recipients==
===First Class===
* [[Garland]]
* [[Lamport]]
* [[Thanos May|Thanos]]
===Second Class===
* [[Yimir]]

Thanos May

2021-04-09T22:19:31Z

Lamport:

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Thanos May
|image = thanoscourt.png
|office = 22nd [[Supreme Court|Chief Justice]] of the United States
|term_start = January 23, 2021
|term_end =
|nominator = [[Sandoval]]
|predecessor = [[Lamport]]
|successor =
|office1 = Judge of the [[Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
|nominator1 = [[Garland]]
|term_start1 = July 30, 2020
|term_end1 = January 23, 2021
|predecessor1 = ''Unknown''
|successor1 = ?}}'''Thanos May''' is a [[Northern]] politician and jurist who served in the [[North|House of Delegates]], [[House of Representatives]] and [[Senate]], including as Chair, Speaker and President pro tempore. In the [[Cabinet]], he served as Attorney General under President [[LOTR]], [[Patty]], [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]], [[d.a.barchipelago|Barch]] and [[Valerie]]. During his political career, Thanos was a [[Progressive Party|Progressive]], [[Social Democratic Party|American Liberal]] and [[Social Democratic Party|Social Democrat]]. He was well known and regarded as the “whip” of the left opposite [[Valerie]] on the right. Thanos was appointed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in July, 2020 and elevated to the Supreme Court as Chief Justice in January, 2021, first by a Social Democrat and then by a [[Libertarian Party|Libertarian]].

==Electoral History==
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|party = Labor
|candidate = [[Thanos May]] (inc.)
|votes = 12,839,785
|percentage = 100.00
|change = +/-0
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|winner = Labor
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Lamport:

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Lamport:

Lamport Administration

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Lamport:

Lamport Administration

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Lamport

2021-04-09T04:27:51Z

Lamport:

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Lamport
|image=lamportovalfinal.png
|office = 21st Chief Justice of the United States
|term_start = July 18, 2019
|term_end = January 18, 2021
|nominator = [[LOTR]]
|predecessor = [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]]
|successor = [[Thanos May|Thanos]]
|office1 = 50th President of the United States
|vicepresident1 = [[Patty]]
|term_start1 = March 3, 2019
|term_end1 = July 12, 2019
|predecessor1 = [[Politophile]]
|successor1 = [[LOTR]]
|office2 = 79th Secretary of the Treasury
|nominator2 = [[Politophile]]
|term_start2 = November 26, 2018
|term_end2 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor2 = [[ComHack447|ComHack]]
|successor2 = [[Jeb!|Jeb]]
|office3 = Senator from the North
|term_start3 = October 31, 2018
|term_end3 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor3 = [[NotAName]]
|successor3 = [[Justin (DF)|Justin]]
|office4 = 6th Chairman of the Republican Party
|term_start4 = September 11, 2018
|term_end4 = January 6, 2019
|predecessor4 = [[Ronald Reagan II]]
|successor4 = [[LOTR]]
|office5 = 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives
|term_start5 = August 31, 2018
|term_end5 = October 31, 2018
|predecessor5 = [[Butterlands]]
|successor5 = [[Peanut]]
|office6 = Member of the House of Representatives from the North’s At Large District
|term_start6 = July 28, 2018
|term_end6 = October 31, 2018}}'''Lamport''' is a retired [[North|Northern]] politician and jurist in the United States. He was a committed [[Republican Party|Republican]] on the libertarian wing of the party. Soon after being elected Chairman, he re-aligned the party and conservative movement at large in a libertarian direction and established [[Libertarian consensus|the political consensus]] that would define federal politics in 2019 and 2020. After serving 12 months in elected office, from the House to the Presidency, Lamport was nominated and confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States, becoming the first politician to head to legislative, executive and judicial branch of government. By some, he is called “the late emancipator,” on account of his leadership to abolish the income tax, end 18 years of perpetual war and pass multiple landmark constitutional amendments on civil rights. To those who give a less positive assessment, on the other hand, his Administration represented a dangerous and unprecedented reduction in the size and scope of the federal government and the military power it can project abroad. His tenure on the Supreme Court is regarded as originalist, skeptical of federal power and punctuated by willingness to challenge long-held precedent. To that end, Lamport wrote the opinion to overturn Darby, restore the distinction between production and commerce and revive the understanding of interstate commerce expounded in 1936. He retired to the Virgin Islands in January, 2021.

=='''Philosophy'''==
Lamport and his political thinking are characterized by social liberalism, economic conservatism, civil libertarianism, military non-interventionism and Georgism. As a Georgist, he is dedicated to a single tax in which land value, and only land value, is taxed. In pursuit of this goal, as President, Lamport cut $300 billion in spending, abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation tax and implemented a land value tax. While he would reduce the corporate tax rate during his term, a single tax would be achieved a year later by Governor and President [[Valerie]], his Chief of Staff, first in [[Jefferson]] and then in the United States. His promotion of non-interventionism planted the seed that would, in time, see the United States withdraw from the Middle East, disarm thousands of nuclear weapons, leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and advocate against the United Nations veto. Broadly, his libertarian economic policy was followed by successive Administrations, left and right, and represented a major part of [[Libertarian consensus|the political consensus]] between March, 2019 and October, 2020. Most consider it "broken" in December, some 22 months later, when a $560 billion deficit was signed into law during the coronavirus pandemic. The prior Administration had suspended all non-essential services and re-directed $500 billion to relief in order to avoid breaking the precedent.

=='''Party'''==
Lamport was first elected to the [[Republican Party|Republican National Committee]] in August, 2018, while serving in the House of Representatives. When [[Ronald Reagan II]] retired in September, he was elected Chairman and acclaimed to a second term in November. His first act as Chairman was to end the Republican-[[Progressive Party|Progressive]] coalition. The electoral success of the party is credited by some to his decision to focus on economic and foreign policy and support, rather than oppose, more progressive social policy like gay marriage and criminal justice reform. Having achieved the first Republican majority in the federal government, Lamport decided against seeking a third term. He was succeeded by Vice Chairman [[LOTR]] in January, 2019. Lamport was soon awarded an honorary seat on the National Committee, held until his nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court in July, when he resigned his membership of the party to guarantee his independence on the bench.

=='''Congress'''==
In July, 2018, a special election was called in the [[At Large|at large district]] and Lamport was sent to the [[House of Representatives]] at the middle point of the term. He first gained national attention by leading a strong opposition to a budget which reported a deficit. Lamport and Speaker [[Butterlands]], a Progressive, formed a coalition to amend the bill and, instead, pass the first balanced budget in 17 years. Re-elected in August, despite being in the Republican minority, he was unanimously elected Speaker. During his second term in the House, Lamport passed legislation to repeal the death penalty, ban the draft, end the mandate to print money to balance the budget and assert the constitutional duty of the legislature, rather than the executive, to declare war. Over the next 18 months, between October, 2018 and April, 2020, he was the only Speaker to serve a whole term: this peculiarity is called the [[The Curse of Lamport|Lamport curse]]. During the same period, he won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court when the attempt by Governor [[IndyPrez|Indy]] to nationalize all private business in the state was struck down as a violation of the takings clause.

He was nominated to run against Senator [[NotAName]] in October and won with 53% of the vote. In the [[Senate]], Lamport passed legislation to re-enfranchise more than 6 million felons on the completion of their sentence or parole, repeal the tip tax, abolish civil forfeiture, recognize territorial self-determination, close the base in Guantanamo Bay, prohibit the last constitutional vestige of slavery, as punishment for crime, and guarantee the right of habeas corpus without the possibility of suspension by the government. While in the minority, he was instrumental in taking down radical [[Progressive Party|Progressive]] legislation, best represented by the $3 trillion "Medicare for All" package which had already passed the House. When Senator [[Apex]] was shot in a failed assassination plot in December, Lamport was elected Acting President pro tempore and held the gavel until his return to office. Over the 7 months he served in Congress, Lamport voted down more than $3.2 trillion in new spending. He and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] are widely recognized as the most prominent and formidable Senators of their political era. On his election to the Presidency, Representative [[Justin (DF)|Justin]] was appointed to succeed him in the Senate.

=='''Cabinet'''==
Having established a political consensus to favor a balanced budget, Lamport was nominated as Secretary of the Treasury by President [[Politophile]] and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in November, 2018. He managed the passage of the second balanced budget and planned the introduction of the land appreciation tax: this would later prove an important step in the tax reform he would achieve as President. Lamport and Attorney General [[Yimir]] took a leading role in the [[Cabinet]], well beyond the management of their Departments, and they gave new life to an institution many believed had become a ''de facto'' sinecure.

=='''White House'''==
Acclaimed as the Republican nominee for [[President of the United States|President]] in February, 2019, Lamport campaigned against Representative [[Sparkle]], Senator [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]] and Senator [[NotAName]] in the general election. Winning every state and more than 70% of the electoral college, he was inaugurated in March with [[Patty]] as Vice President. His Administration was noted for passing more legislation and issuing more orders and proclamations than the last three Administrations put together.

Lamport abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation land, implemented a 6% land value tax, cut the corporate tax by 25% to achieve the lowest rate since 1936, cancelled $300 billion in public spending and began to pay down the debt for the first time in a generation. Beyond economic policy, his Administration ended the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, withdrew more than 20,000 troops posted outside the United States, repealed the Patriot Act, abolished the Department of Homeland Security, suspended government-to-government aid to dictatorships, regulated the intelligence community, negotiated a landmark treaty with the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan and North Korea to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world by 50% and returned Guantanamo Bay to Cuba. He also reinstated the federal parole system, banned private imprisonment, de-nationalized the rail and tele-communications sector, which had been seized by President [[Poke]], protected national parks against exploitation and granted limited rights to apes, monkeys, elephants, whales, dolphins, octopuses and squids. He was the first elected President in 40 years, since Jimmy Carter, not subject to any attempt to impeach.

Near the end of his Presidency, Lamport and Governor [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] were shot by a neo-fascist militia in Nashville. During the course of his treatment, amid concern he may die, the Cabinet invoked the 25th amendment and Vice President [[Patty]] served as Acting President until he could return to office the following week. While Lamport and his Administration were popular, [[Valeriegate]] saw a number of people criticize the way in which "pressure" was used to ensure the passage of his legislative agenda. Some called for the dismissal of his Chief of Staff, however, he resisted and later signed the bill that caused the controversy into law. Noting how the authorization passed following September 11, 2001 was cited again and again over the next 17 years, it banned their open-ended nature and set a 2 year default.

Republicans, Progressives, Communists, Populists and Independents were all represented in his Cabinet. [[Politophile]] and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] were nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court during his Administration. Committed to seek and serve only a single term, having accomplished each campaign promise made in the election, Lamport was succeeded as President by Senator [[LOTR]] in July, while his Vice President was re-elected to a second term. On his last day in office, he pardoned Julian Assange and de-classified an unprecedented number of UFO documents.

=='''Supreme Court'''==
Nominated to the [[Supreme Court]] by his successor, President [[LOTR]], Lamport was confirmed as Chief Justice in July, 2019, with only one Senator voting against. His appointment, followed by the appointment of Associate Justice [[JMP]], [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] and [[Patty]], marked the beginning of an originalist majority on the bench for the first time in 80 years. Among less momentous judgements, he authored the opinions which restored corporate personhood as a legal concept, protected campaign donations by natural persons, reversed the "particular government program" exception to the origination clause, overturned the machine gun ban, declared the annexation of Hawaii in 1898 unconstitutional but affirmed its admission to the union in 1959, upheld the revocation of the North Atlantic Treaty and narrowed the interpretation of the interstate commerce clause by rebuking Darby and reviving the distinction between production and commerce in Carter. In a case often cited as his "favorite," he dissented against the ''a priori'' expulsion of a liberal Representative. In general, while most judgements were unanimous, the [[Lamport Court]] challenged and, in some ways, openly rejected the convention on political deference born in the aftermath of the New Deal. Most jurists agreed with his jurisprudence when questioned as nominees, however, some on the left - particularly Senator [[Epsilon Leclair|Epsilon]] - grew increasingly critical over time and even characterized the Supreme Court as “partisan.”

In this post, Lamport administered the oath of office to President [[Patty]], [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]], [[d.a.barchipelago|Barch]], [[Valerie]], [[Garland]], [[Cabin]] and [[Sandoval]]. He also presided over two impeachment trials: the first in February, 2020, where the President was convicted, and the second in September, where the Governor of Puerto Rico was acquitted. While irregular, Lamport was asked to preside over the [[Puerto Rico|Legislative Assembly]] because the new state had not yet established its own Supreme Court. During the 18 months he served as Chief Justice, he developed a form of original meaning theory called the [[Lamport proviso]]. Lamport retired in January, 2021 and was soon succeeded by Chief Judge [[Thanos May|Thanos]].

=='''Retirement'''==
In retirement, Lamport divided his time between the North and Saint Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands, where he farmed sugarcane, distilled rum and drank to excess.

=='''Honors'''==
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (October, 2019)
* [[Congressional Gold Medal]] (November, 2019)
* [[Parliamentary Medal of Unity]] (August, 2020)[[Category:Biography]]

Lamport

2021-04-09T04:09:11Z

Lamport:

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Lamport
|image=lamportovalfinal.png
|office = 21st Chief Justice of the United States
|term_start = July 18, 2019
|term_end = January 18, 2021
|nominator = [[LOTR]]
|predecessor = [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]]
|successor = [[Thanos May|Thanos]]
|office1 = 50th President of the United States
|vicepresident1 = [[Patty]]
|term_start1 = March 3, 2019
|term_end1 = July 12, 2019
|predecessor1 = [[Politophile]]
|successor1 = [[LOTR]]
|office2 = 79th Secretary of the Treasury
|nominator2 = [[Politophile]]
|term_start2 = November 26, 2018
|term_end2 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor2 = [[ComHack447|ComHack]]
|successor2 = [[Jeb!|Jeb]]
|office3 = Senator from the North
|term_start3 = October 31, 2018
|term_end3 = March 3, 2019
|predecessor3 = [[NotAName]]
|successor3 = [[Justin (DF)|Justin]]
|office4 = 6th Chairman of the Republican Party
|term_start4 = September 11, 2018
|term_end4 = January 6, 2019
|predecessor4 = [[Ronald Reagan II]]
|successor4 = [[LOTR]]
|office5 = 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives
|term_start5 = August 31, 2018
|term_end5 = October 31, 2018
|predecessor5 = [[Butterlands]]
|successor5 = [[Peanut]]
|office6 = Member of the House of Representatives from the North’s At Large District
|term_start6 = July 28, 2018
|term_end6 = October 31, 2018}}'''Lamport''' is a retired [[North|Northern]] politician and jurist in the United States. He was a committed [[Republican Party|Republican]] on the libertarian wing of the party. Soon after being elected Chairman, he re-aligned the party and conservative movement at large in a libertarian direction and established [[Libertarian consensus|the political consensus]] that would define federal politics in 2019 and 2020. After serving 12 months in elected office, from the House to the Presidency, Lamport was nominated and confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States, becoming the first politician to head to legislative, executive and judicial branch of government. By some, he is called “the late emancipator,” on account of his leadership to abolish the income tax, end 18 years of perpetual war and pass multiple landmark constitutional amendments on civil rights. To those who give a less positive assessment, on the other hand, his Administration represented a dangerous and unprecedented reduction in the size and scope of the federal government and the military power it can project abroad. His tenure on the Supreme Court is regarded as originalist, skeptical of federal power and punctuated by willingness to challenge precedent. Most consequently, the [[Lamport Court]] overturned Darby, restored the distinction between production and commerce and returned the jurisprudential understanding of interstate commerce to 1936. He retired to the Virgin Islands in January, 2021.

=='''Philosophy'''==
Lamport and his political thinking are characterized by social liberalism, economic conservatism, civil libertarianism, military non-interventionism and Georgism. As a Georgist, he is dedicated to a single tax in which land value, and only land value, is taxed. In pursuit of this goal, as President, Lamport cut $300 billion in spending, abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation tax and implemented a land value tax. While he would reduce the corporate tax rate during his term, a single tax would be achieved a year later by Governor and President [[Valerie]], his Chief of Staff, first in [[Jefferson]] and then in the United States. His promotion of non-interventionism planted the seed that would, in time, see the United States withdraw from the Middle East, disarm thousands of nuclear weapons, leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and advocate against the United Nations veto. Broadly, his libertarian economic policy was followed by successive Administrations, left and right, and represented a major part of [[Libertarian consensus|the political consensus]] between March, 2019 and October, 2020. Most consider it "broken" in December, some 22 months later, when a $560 billion deficit was signed into law during the coronavirus pandemic. The prior Administration had suspended all non-essential services and re-directed $500 billion to relief in order to avoid breaking the precedent.

=='''Party'''==
Lamport was first elected to the [[Republican Party|Republican National Committee]] in August, 2018, while serving in the House of Representatives. When [[Ronald Reagan II]] retired in September, he was elected Chairman and acclaimed to a second term in November. His first act as Chairman was to end the Republican-[[Progressive Party|Progressive]] coalition. The electoral success of the party is credited by some to his decision to focus on economic and foreign policy and support, rather than oppose, more progressive social policy like gay marriage and criminal justice reform. Having achieved the first Republican majority in the federal government, Lamport decided against seeking a third term. He was succeeded by Vice Chairman [[LOTR]] in January, 2019. Lamport was soon awarded an honorary seat on the National Committee, held until his nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court in July, when he resigned his membership of the party to guarantee his independence on the bench.

=='''Congress'''==
In July, 2018, a special election was called in the [[At Large|at large district]] and Lamport was sent to the [[House of Representatives]] at the middle point of the term. He first gained national attention by leading a strong opposition to a budget which reported a deficit. Lamport and Speaker [[Butterlands]], a Progressive, formed a coalition to amend the bill and, instead, pass the first balanced budget in 17 years. Re-elected in August, despite being in the Republican minority, he was unanimously elected Speaker. During his second term in the House, Lamport passed legislation to repeal the death penalty, ban the draft, end the mandate to print money to balance the budget and assert the constitutional duty of the legislature, rather than the executive, to declare war. Over the next 18 months, between October, 2018 and April, 2020, he was the only Speaker to serve a whole term: this peculiarity is called the [[The Curse of Lamport|Lamport curse]]. During the same period, he won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court when the attempt by Governor [[IndyPrez|Indy]] to nationalize all private business in the state was struck down as a violation of the takings clause.

He was nominated to run against Senator [[NotAName]] in October and won with 53% of the vote. In the [[Senate]], Lamport passed legislation to re-enfranchise more than 6 million felons on the completion of their sentence or parole, repeal the tip tax, abolish civil forfeiture, recognize territorial self-determination, close the base in Guantanamo Bay, prohibit the last constitutional vestige of slavery, as punishment for crime, and guarantee the right of habeas corpus without the possibility of suspension by the government. While in the minority, he was instrumental in taking down radical [[Progressive Party|Progressive]] legislation, best represented by the $3 trillion "Medicare for All" package which had already passed the House. When Senator [[Apex]] was shot in a failed assassination plot in December, Lamport was elected Acting President pro tempore and held the gavel until his return to office. Over the 7 months he served in Congress, Lamport voted down more than $3.2 trillion in new spending. He and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] are widely recognized as the most prominent and formidable Senators of their political era. On his election to the Presidency, Representative [[Justin (DF)|Justin]] was appointed to succeed him in the Senate.

=='''Cabinet'''==
Having established a political consensus to favor a balanced budget, Lamport was nominated as Secretary of the Treasury by President [[Politophile]] and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in November, 2018. He managed the passage of the second balanced budget and planned the introduction of the land appreciation tax: this would later prove an important step in the tax reform he would achieve as President. Lamport and Attorney General [[Yimir]] took a leading role in the [[Cabinet]], well beyond the management of their Departments, and they gave new life to an institution many believed had become a ''de facto'' sinecure.

=='''White House'''==
Acclaimed as the Republican nominee for [[President of the United States|President]] in February, 2019, Lamport campaigned against Representative [[Sparkle]], Senator [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]] and Senator [[NotAName]] in the general election. Winning every state and more than 70% of the electoral college, he was inaugurated in March with [[Patty]] as Vice President. His Administration was noted for passing more legislation and issuing more orders and proclamations than the last three Administrations put together.

Lamport abolished the income, estate, gift and land appreciation land, implemented a 6% land value tax, cut the corporate tax by 25% to achieve the lowest rate since 1936, cancelled $300 billion in public spending and began to pay down the debt for the first time in a generation. Beyond economic policy, his Administration ended the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, withdrew more than 20,000 troops posted outside the United States, repealed the Patriot Act, abolished the Department of Homeland Security, suspended government-to-government aid to dictatorships, regulated the intelligence community, negotiated a landmark treaty with the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan and North Korea to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world by 50% and returned Guantanamo Bay to Cuba. He also reinstated the federal parole system, banned private imprisonment, de-nationalized the rail and tele-communications sector, which had been seized by President [[Poke]], protected national parks against exploitation and granted limited rights to apes, monkeys, elephants, whales, dolphins, octopuses and squids. He was the first elected President in 40 years, since Jimmy Carter, not subject to any attempt to impeach.

Near the end of his Presidency, Lamport and Governor [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] were shot by a neo-fascist militia in Nashville. During the course of his treatment, amid concern he may die, the Cabinet invoked the 25th amendment and Vice President [[Patty]] served as Acting President until he could return to office the following week. While Lamport and his Administration were popular, [[Valeriegate]] saw a number of people criticize the way in which "pressure" was used to ensure the passage of his legislative agenda. Some called for the dismissal of his Chief of Staff, however, he resisted and later signed the bill that caused the controversy into law. Noting how the authorization passed following September 11, 2001 was cited again and again over the next 17 years, it banned their open-ended nature and set a 2 year default.

Republicans, Progressives, Communists, Populists and Independents were all represented in his Cabinet. [[Politophile]] and [[DisguisedJet719|Jet]] were nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court during his Administration. Committed to seek and serve only a single term, having accomplished each campaign promise made in the election, Lamport was succeeded as President by Senator [[LOTR]] in July, while his Vice President was re-elected to a second term. On his last day in office, he pardoned Julian Assange and de-classified an unprecedented number of UFO documents.

=='''Supreme Court'''==
Nominated to the [[Supreme Court]] by his successor, President [[LOTR]], Lamport was confirmed as Chief Justice in July, 2019, with only one Senator voting against. His appointment, followed by the appointment of Associate Justice [[JMP]], [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] and [[Patty]], marked the beginning of an originalist majority on the bench for the first time in 80 years. Among less momentous judgements, he authored the opinions which restored corporate personhood as a legal concept, protected campaign donations by natural persons, reversed the "particular government program" exception to the origination clause, overturned the machine gun ban, declared the annexation of Hawaii in 1898 unconstitutional but affirmed its admission to the union in 1959, upheld the revocation of the North Atlantic Treaty and narrowed the interpretation of the interstate commerce clause by rebuking Darby and reviving the distinction between production and commerce in Carter. In a case often cited as his "favorite," he dissented against the ''a priori'' expulsion of a liberal Representative. In general, while most judgements were unanimous, the [[Lamport Court]] challenged and, in some ways, openly rejected the convention on political deference born in the aftermath of the New Deal. Most jurists agreed with his jurisprudence when questioned as nominees, however, some on the left - particularly Senator [[Epsilon Leclair|Epsilon]] - grew increasingly critical over time and even characterized the Supreme Court as “partisan.”

In this post, Lamport administered the oath of office to President [[Patty]], [[MichiganLefty|Michigan]], [[d.a.barchipelago|Barch]], [[Valerie]], [[Garland]], [[Cabin]] and [[Sandoval]]. He also presided over two impeachment trials: the first in February, 2020, where the President was convicted, and the second in September, where the Governor of Puerto Rico was acquitted. While irregular, Lamport was asked to preside over the [[Puerto Rico|Legislative Assembly]] because the new state had not yet established its own Supreme Court. During the 18 months he served as Chief Justice, he developed a form of original meaning theory called the [[Lamport proviso]]. Lamport retired in January, 2021 and was soon succeeded by Chief Judge [[Thanos May|Thanos]].

=='''Retirement'''==
In retirement, Lamport divided his time between the North and Saint Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands, where he farmed sugarcane, distilled rum and drank to excess.

=='''Honors'''==
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (October, 2019)
* [[Congressional Gold Medal]] (November, 2019)
* [[Parliamentary Medal of Unity]] (August, 2020)[[Category:Biography]]

Valerie

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|name = Valerie
|image = valovalfinal.png
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|office = Senator from Jefferson
|term_start = July 13, 2020
|term_end =
|predecessor = [[Zarphos]]
|successor =

|office1 = 55th President of the United States
|term_start1 = February 6, 2020
|term_end1 = July 13, 2020
|vicepresident1 = [[J.G.T. Webb|Webb]] [[Cabin]]
|predecessor1 = [[d.a.barchipelago|Barch]]
|successor1 = [[Garland]]

|office2 = 4th and 8th Governor of Jefferson
|term_start2 = October 9, 2019
|term_end2 = February 6, 2020
|lieutenant_governor2 = [[Rincewind]]
|predecessor2 = [[Putbye]]
|successor2 = [[Rincewind]]

|term_start3 = December 18, 2018
|term_end3 = February 1, 2019
|lieutenant_governor3 = [[NotAName]]
|predecessor3 = [[Peanut]]
|successor3 = [[codegreen]]

|office4 = 74th Speaker of the House of Representatives
|term_start4 = November 14, 2019
|term_end4 = February 6, 2020
|predecessor4 = [[Thanos]]
|successor4 = [[Cabin]]

|office5 = Chief of Staff to the President
|president5 = [[Patty]]
|term_start5 = September 27, 2019
|term_end5 = November 6, 2019
|predecessor5 = [[Cabin]]
|successor5 = [[Thanos May|Thanos]]

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|term_start6 = March 5, 2019
|term_end6 = July 12, 2019
|predecessor6 = [[Peanut]]
|successor6 = [[John Boehner|Boehner]]
}}

'''Valerie''' is a [[Jefferson|Jeffersonian]] attorney and politician in the United States. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], [[Federalist Party|Federalist]] and [[Second Libertarian Party|Libertarian]], she served as Speaker, Governor, President and Senator over a long, and often controversial, career. By virtue of good timing, she succeeded to executive office twice as Speaker, first as Governor in 2018 and later as President in 2020. Elected to a full term in March, her Administration led the country through the coronavirus pandemic without going into debt, achieved a single tax on land value, introduced a universal basic income, implemented a reverse carbon tax and withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty.

==Parliament==
Elected to the Parliament of Jefferson in October, 2018, her first legislative achievement was lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 amid [[Progressive Party|Progressive]] opposition. She was re-elected to a second term and further elected Speaker. A month later, however, Governor [[Peanut]] and Lieutenant Governor [[Cool Dad]] resigned without notice or warning so, as the next in line, she was called upon to succeed to the Governorship.

Re-elected to Parliament between August, 2020 and February, 2021, following her Presidency, Valerie legalized gambling, reformed public education by pushing the school day to 9 am, abolishing homework and capping exams at 50%, authorized the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to order de-certification, lowered the voting age to encompass those turning 18 during the term being elected, defended the single tax system that she enacted as Governor and amended the probate code to better protect conservatees. When Speaker [[Computerguy]] had to succeed in September, she once again elected to the chair until the next session in October.

==First Governorship==
Taking office, Valerie recognized neither she, nor her party, were elected by the people to govern the Commonwealth so she committed to lead in a non-controversial and generally non-partisan manner. She nominated the leading Progressive in Jefferson, Senator [[NotAName]], to serve as Lieutenant Governor. She did not seek her own term in next gubernatorial election and [[codegreen]] was elected to the post.

==House==
Elected to the House in October, 2018, Valerie was re-elected to a further 5 terms. She passed legislation to establish default trade reciprocity, make national parks free of charge, abolish the Department of Education in favor of a block grant to the states, merge the Department of Commerce, Deparment of Labor and Small Business Administration to form a single Department of Commerce and Labor, guarantee veterans the right to choose between public benefits, private benefits or regular payments in lieu and repeal the federal drinking age. She also passed constitutional amendments to ban capital punishment, narrow the power of the executive to wage war without legislative consent and repeal the discriminatory age qualification for public office: all were ratified with multi-partisan support. When President [[MichiganLefty]] neglected to sponsor a budget, she sponsored her own budget in December, 2019, and pushed the [[Labor]] Administration to cut the corporate tax and cut general spending by $32 billion. Finally, during a long period in which the Speaker was regularly dismissed in the middle of the session, Valerie was elected to succeed Representative [[Thanos]] and re-elected to the chair by the next Congress. She served a term and a half. While she came close to breaking the [[The Curse of Lamport|Lamport curse]], her succession to the Presidency gave that honor to [[John Smith]] in April, 2020.

==Chief of Staff==
Valerie was appointed Chief of Staff to President [[Lamport]] in March, 2019, and served until the end of his Administration. She took a leading role in making sure his legislative agenda was passed by Congress and helped negotiate the landmark nuclear disarmament treaty. President [[LOTR]] did not keep her on as Chief of Staff, rather, she was nominated and confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. When he resigned the office amid a primary scandal, however, she was re-appointed as Chief of Staff by President [[Patty]] and served until the election of President [[MichiganLefty]] in January, 2020.

==Second Governorship==
Critical of Governor [[Putbye]] and his Administration taking on hundreds of billions in debt, Valerie challenged his re-election and won, taking office in October, 2019. She immediately began to pay down the debt, implemented a land value tax, abolished the income tax, corporate tax and sales tax, achieving the first single tax in the United States, and established a universal basic income (named the Common Wealth Fund) which guaranteed $1,300 a year. She also ended the construction of a Trumpian border wall begun by Governor [[System]], bought 60 million acres of land from Washington and put it back in Jeffersonian hands, legalized drug possession and prostitution, banned private prisons, prohibited exploitative penal labor and required public buildings to double as homeless shelters at night. When the federal government neglected to act during the coronavirus outbreak, Valerie organized a public health campaign in Jefferson and, with Americans stranded in China, her Administration took charge of the situation and chartered transportation to bring them home to national acclaim.

Running against [[codegreen]], her successor two years prior, Valerie was re-elected to the post with 64% of the vote in February, 2020. Her second term saw her pay off the debt, which was $250 billion when she took office, grow the universal basic income to $4,000 a year and establish a $25 billion investment fund with a mandate to prioritize no-to-low carbon business. She also led the opposition against some in her own party who sponsored a bill to ban abortion in the Commonwealth: while the bill was passed, she vetoed and no further attempt to impose the ban was made during her tenure.

Soon after beginning her second term, however, President [[d.a.barchipelago]] was impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate and dismissed.. As there was no Vice President and she was next in line, as the Speaker of the House, Valerie was called upon to succeed to the Presidency in a situation remarkably similar to her succession to the Governorship in 2018. She resigned in favor of her Lieutenant Governor, [[Rincewind]], moments before taking the oath.

==Presidency==
Valerie assumed the Presidency in February, 2020, with a month until the general election. She passed a budget which abolished the corporate tax and land appreciation tax, among other taxes, and - following her model in Jefferson - established a single tax on land value. She also established a program to house more than 560,000 people at federal expense, ending homelessness in the United States, signed two treaties to ban anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs (which the Senate ratified) and took a role of international leadership in clearing oceanic pollution.

She sought election with [[J.G.T. Webb]] as Vice President in March, 2020, and won with more than 60% of the vote. He later retired and Governor [[Cabin]] was nominated and confirmed to succeed him. Her elected term was focused on the coronavirus: Valerie mandated treatment without charge, established an emergency income fund to guarantee $1,063 a month to the working population, sent aid to the states, directed the military to assist and suspended non-essential government work in a determined campaign to limit its spread. Despite her record as a strict fiscal conservative, she committed more than $500 billion to relief. During the crisis, Congress took unprecedented action to empower her to re-direct budget appropriations to emergency spending as required: this made sure key federal programs were well-funded and not subject to political gridlock. Valerie managed the crisis without going into debt or running a deficit.

During her term, she also introduced the foundation of a universal basic income at $600 a year, legislated a reverse carbon tax to reduce emissions without growing the tax burden, established a grant to encourage high school graduation, stopped extradition to states with capital and corporal punishment, made life-saving medication patent-free to lower prices, abolished qualified immunity, repealed a number of exceptions to freedom of speech, closed the Drug Enforcement Administration, mandated same day registration to protect against voter suppression, re-authorized the Commission on Civil Rights and - following a long political debate which spanned multiple Administrations - withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Valerie nominated [[Yimir]], an experienced Attorney General and Governor, to the Supreme Court and she was confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support.

Following the example of President [[Lamport]], Valerie decided against seeking a second term. She was succeeded by Governor [[Garland]] in July, 2020, after his [[United States presidential election, July 2020|contingent election]] in the House. While she was elected to the Senate, she set a new precedent by deciding to remain in the White House until the election was resolved.

==Senate==
Valerie was elected to the Senate in July, 2020, and re-elected without opposition in January, 2021. During her first term, she and Senator [[Bo]] were able to seize control of the agenda despite being the minority in what would be called [[Gavelgate]]. She did not have a formal leadership role, however, many believe that she was the ''de facto'' head of the Libertarian caucus.

While she blocked tens of billions in proposed deficit spending and insisted on equal cuts to other appropriations, she further empowered the Department of Justice to investigate police abuse and misconduct, banned interrogatory deception, reformed the Environmental Protection Agency into the Department of Conservation and Climate Change, added millions of acres of designated wilderness, ended the ''ex parte'' nature of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and made its proceedings adversarial, banned torture framed as “enhanced interrogation,” prohibited military recruitment at public schools and abolished the national interest waiver to legislation intended to address and take action against the use of child soldiers. Re-elected to the Senate in January, 2021, she had $20 billion in debt owed by Puerto Rico to Dixie assumed by the federal government and, with President [[Sandoval]], Vice President [[Bo]], Senator [[Elkridge]], Senator [[Ian]] and Representative [[Wonder]], enacted a budget without any new taxes or spending despite the liberal majority in the House and Senate calling for both.

==Honors==
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (October, 2019)
* [[Medal of Extraordinary Service]] (July, 2020)
* [[Key to the City|Key to the City of Washington, D.C.]] (January, 2021)[[Category:Biography]]

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