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The following individuals and groups supported a lawsuit requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court intervene to question the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states.
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About Eric Schmitt (R) has served as attorney general of Missouri since 2019 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement. After winning in November, he will fill the seat of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Schmitt previously served as state treasurer from 2017–19 and was a member of the Missouri Senate … Read more
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About Herbert Slatery III (R) served as attorney general of Tennessee from 2014–22 and was the first Republican since Reconstruction who was appointed to the position by the state Supreme Court (which is how the AG position is filled in Tennessee). In May 2022, he announced that he would not seek another eight-year term but … Read more
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About Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) has served Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won 78% of the district vote in his very red state. Prior to being elected to Congress, Smith served in the Nebraska Legislature from 1999–2007. He was … Read more
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About Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013, representing Missouri’s 8th Congressional District. He is currently the ranking member of the House Budget Committee and was previously secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2017–21. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly … Read more
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About Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015, representing New York’s 21st Congressional District. She ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won. After a degree at Harvard, Stefanik worked in the George W. Bush administration for the chief of staff and as part of the Domestic … Read more
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About Wayne Stenehjem (R) was the attorney general of North Dakota from 2000–22, becoming the state’s longest-serving AG before he died of cardiac arrest in February 2022. Following his death, Stenehjem’s staff deleted large quantities of his emails, leading to allegations that they were trying to hide something from the public. His successor, Drew Wrigley … Read more
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About Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019, representing Florida’s 17th Congressional District. He ran for reelection in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement and won in his solidly Republican district. Before being elected to Congress, Steube served for eight years in the Florida state legislature. He is a member of … Read more
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On Dec. 8, 2020, Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to block Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin from certifying their results of the 2020 presidential election because of what it charged were unconstitutional changes to election procedures made to accommodate voters during the pandemic.
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The Heritage Foundation is a right-wing think tank founded in 1973 and now perhaps best known for generating Project 2025, an extremist set of policy proposals for a second Trump administration.
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About Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009, representing Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District—the state’s geographically largest one—since 2019 and its 5th Congressional District prior to that. As the state’s senior Republican congressman, he says he is eager to restore “civility” to Congress and ran for reelection in 2022 … Read more