Lamport

Lamport
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21st Chief Justice of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office July 18, 2019
Nominated by	LOTR
Preceded by	DisguisedJet719
50th President of the United States
In office March 3, 2019 – July 12, 2019
Vice President	Patty
Preceded by	Politophile
Succeeded by	LOTR
79th Secretary of the Treasury
In office November 26, 2018 – March 3, 2019
President	Politophile
Preceded by	ComHack447
Succeeded by	Jeb!
Senator from the North
In office October 31, 2018 – March 3, 2019
Preceded by	NotAName
Succeeded by	Justin (DF)
6th Chairman of the Republican Party
In office September 11, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Preceded by	Ronald Reagan II
Succeeded by	LOTR
59th Speaker of the House
In office August 31, 2018 – October 31, 2018
Preceded by	Butterlands
Succeeded by	Peanut
Representative from the North
In office July 28, 2018 – October 31, 2018

Lamport is an accomplished Northern politician and jurist in the United States. A committed Republican during his political life, he led - if not formed - the libertarian wing of the party and, over time, brought it into a majority position at the expense of the social and neo-conservative wing. Having served 12 months in elected office, from the House to the Presidency, Lamport was appointed to the Supreme Court, becoming the first politician to head the 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.

Philosophy

His political thinking, what some term Lamportarianism, is characterized by social liberalism, economic conservatism, civil libertarianism and Georgism. As a Georgist, he is dedicated to the realization of a single tax in which land value, and only land value, is taxed. He began the reform in March, 2019. It was finally achieved by Governor and President Valerie, who served as his Chief of Staff, almost a year later.

Party

Lamport was first elected to the Republican National Committee in August, 2018, while he was a member of the House. When Ronald Reagan II retired in September, he was elected Chairman and unanimously re-elected in November. He led the libertarian wing of the party and, during his second term as Chairman, the party itself was recognized as being primarily libertarian. 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. He 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 to help guarantee his independence on the bench.

Congress

He was sent to the House in a special election in July, 2018, at the middle point of the term. He first gained national attention when he led a strong opposition to a budget which reported a deficit. He and Speaker Butterlands were successful in their campaign to amend the bill and, instead, pass the first balanced budget in 17 years.

Returned to office in August, despite his party holding the minority, Lamport was unanimously elected Speaker. During his second term in the House, he passed legislation to repeal the death penalty, ban the draft, end the requirement to print money to balance the budget, which served to enable unchecked deficit spending, and assert the constitutional duty of the legislature, rather than the executive, to declare war. He is, to date, the last Speaker to serve a whole term.

Lamport was nominated to run against Senator NotAName in October and won with 53.5% of the vote. In the Senate, he passed legislation to re-enfranchise more than 6 million felons on the completion of their sentence or parole, repeal the tip tax, abolish the practice of civil forfeiture, recognize the right of territorial self-determination, close the base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prohibit the last constitutional vestige of slavery, as punishment for crime, and guarantee habeas corpus without the possibility of suspension by the government. While in the minority, with relatively limited power, he was instrumental in taking down radical Progressive legislation, such as 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 President pro tempore and held the gavel until his return to office.

Over the course of the 7 months he served in Congress, in the House and Senate, Lamport was able to defeat more than $3.2 trillion in new spending. He and DisguisedJet719 are broadly recognized as the most formidable Senators of their political era.

Cabinet

Having established a new political imperative in the House to favor a balanced budget, whenever possible, Lamport was nominated as Secretary of the Treasury by President Politophile and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in November, 2018. He managed the second balanced budget and planned the introduction of the land appreciation tax which would later prove an important step in his tax reform as President.

White House

Acclaimed as the Republican nominee for President in February, 2019, Lamport campaigned against Representative Sparkle, Senator MichiganLefty 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 having passed more legislation, and issued more orders and proclamations, than the last three Administrations put together.

Lamport implemented a 6% land value tax, completely abolished the income, estate and gift tax, cut the corporate tax by 25%, which achieved the lowest rate since 1936, reduced spending by $300 billion and began to pay down the debt for the first time in 17 years. Above and beyond finance, his Administration finally 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 and negotiated a landmark disarmament 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%. He also reinstated the federal parole system, banned private imprisonment, de-nationalized the rail and telecommunications 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.

Republicans, Progressives, Communists, Populists and Independents were all represented in his Cabinet. Politophile and DisguisedJet719, who served as Secretary of State, were nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court during his tenure. 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.

Supreme Court

Nominated to the Supreme Court by his successor, he was confirmed as Chief Justice in July, 2019, less than a week after leaving the Presidency. Joined by JMP, then J.G.T. Webb and Patty, the Lamport Court was the first decidedly originalist bench in 80 years. Among less momentous judgements, he authored the opinions which restored corporate personhood, protected campaign donations under the first amendment, strengthened the interpretation of the origination clause and ruled the annexation of Hawaii in 1898 illegal.

In this role, Lamport administered the oath of office to President Patty, MichiganLefty, d.a.barchipelago and Valerie.

Honors

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in October and Congressional Gold Medal in November, 2019.