" It "operates independently of any federal candidate or officeholder.
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At this writing, no nationally known Republican officeholder except Sen.
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"He's not a current officeholder," Walsh said with a laugh.
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He's not a businessman or a veteran or a local officeholder.
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The email sent to each local officeholder was determined by chance.
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Every statewide officeholder in California is a Democrat; in Texas, none are.
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Members have gathered out of respect for the office, not the officeholder.
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To see how that works, Sanders and Clinton can consult the current officeholder.
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No actual Republican officeholder has proposed a carbon tax or signaled support for one.
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He enjoys the support of a lengthy list of Democratic officials, including every single statewide officeholder.
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But Reagan, of course, was not an officeholder at the point when he gave his speech.
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We have a state officeholder in South Carolina talking about how proud she is of the Confederacy.
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What I learned from my Congressional run is that it's nearly impossible to unseat an incumbent officeholder.
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It is also the rare time that the kleptocracy initiative has gone after such a senior officeholder.
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For a GOP officeholder, standing up for democratic integrity could mean sacrificing reelection in 2018 or 2020.
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Koster, a longtime officeholder, has also relied on his tough-on-crime record and rhetoric in the campaign.
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But while the Republican nominee is dabbling in conspiracy theories, no Democratic officeholder is holding hearings about chemtrails.
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But in their field of vision, Mr. Gardner, Colorado's top Republican officeholder, is almost nowhere to be found.
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The post has been vacant since the former officeholder, Preet Bharara, was fired by Mr. Trump in March.
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Giuliani, who is not a U.S. official or officeholder, has been a key player in Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
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Brian Sandoval, a prominent Latino GOP officeholder who had been highly critical of Trump, came around earlier this month.
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And it amounted to an extraordinary escalation in tensions between the party's presumptive nominee and its highest-ranking officeholder.
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As a Democratic officeholder recently said to me: The other side is better than us at the local level.
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Party bosses could try to convince some local officeholder to resign and then have Collins run for that seat.
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The 2100-year-old former Colorado governor has positioned himself as a centrist and an experienced officeholder with business experience.
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Mitt Romney, who issued one of the strongest condemnation of the Trump administration's withdrawal from Syria of any Republican officeholder.
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Meanwhile, Democrat Danny O'Connor, an elected county officeholder from the vote-rich Columbus area, has positioned himself as a moderate.
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The 67-year-old former Colorado governor has positioned himself as a centrist and an experienced officeholder with business experience.
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The 20163-year-old former Colorado governor has positioned himself as a centrist and an experienced officeholder with business experience.
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"Are they saying they would not be a member of the NRA if they weren't an officeholder?" he told McClatchy.
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Casey Cagle, a veteran officeholder, but based on local polls, he is unlikely to secure the nomination outright on Tuesday.
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Second, historical practice is that every other federal officeholder, including the vice president, has been considered eligible for regular prosecution.
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The complaint alleges the business violates the terms of the lease, which says it cannot be held by an elected officeholder.
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By the way, LePage is an incredibly controversial Republican officeholder — and at times he's even suggested he's open to racial profiling.
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Seldom used in American history, impeachment is the Constitution's most extreme mechanism for checking a corrupt or out of control officeholder.
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The first time the Constitution mentions the process, it is to give the House sole authority to impeach a federal officeholder.
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Voter turnout has got to be something that is on the mind of every rank-and-file Democrat, every Democratic officeholder.
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Handel was not a stellar candidate, but as a former officeholder and longtime community presence, she was a comfortable choice for Republicans.
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De Leon, the former State Senate president, attempted to portray Feinstein as far too status quo and an officeholder of the past.
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I found a significantly accomplished, defensibly qualified Democratic officeholder who isn't flirting with — and hasn't fantasized about — a presidential run in 6503.
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And he weighed a run for attorney general until Lori Swanson, the current officeholder, decided to run for a fourth term this winter.
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This is unacceptable for any officeholder, but especially worrisome for someone who is now the chief law enforcement official of our great country.
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"Campaign funds can be used to pay legal fees that arise out of the campaign or one's duty as an officeholder," Fischer explained.
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In a private Facebook message posted by the website, the woman alleged sexual assault by a statewide officeholder whose identifying description match Fairfax.
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In the campaign's two requests for extensions, Sanders's legal counsel cited a busy campaign schedule and officeholder duties as "good cause" for delays.
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There's already a former Republican officeholder who will be on the ballot in most and possibly all 50 states: former New Mexico Gov.
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Jeff Colyer, who is seeking a full term as governor after the previous officeholder, Sam Brownback, was confirmed to an ambassadorship in January.
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His or her character is irrelevant because the potential officeholder is to be judged wholly by the policies he or she will support.
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The first-time officeholder has vowed to ramp up oil, natural gas and coal projects while crimping federal protections for clean air and water.
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Washington (CNN)A retweet may not always equal an endorsement, but when you're a public officeholder, it certainly can carry a lot of weight.
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In a statement issued in his official capacity as attorney general, he said he would leave the report for the next officeholder to handle.
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And barring a first-term collapse of the first-time officeholder, it may be several White House election cycles before they have another shot.
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This unabashed populist doesn't seem to project elitist vibes; the "rumpled" villain of big banks has fashioned himself as an easy-to-approach officeholder.
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"A federal officeholder does not violate the constitution by owning an interest in a company that may do business with a foreign government," Shumate said.
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Celebrating an office such as the presidency is misguided because it conflates the individual officeholder with what is truly worth celebrating: our unique constitutional republic.
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Giovanni Favia, an early officeholder with the party from Bologna, said his suspicion that Casaleggio Associates was manipulating votes helped prompt his expulsion in 2012.
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The first graph presented here exclusively examines open seats, as it is still very much the case that when an incumbent officeholder runs, she wins.
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A section known as the emoluments clause prohibits any officeholder in the United States from accepting any "emolument, title, or office" from a foreign government.
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Representatives of Trump's casinos lobbied Christie as early as 1996 when Christie was a little-own local officeholder in Morris County, according to the Star-Ledger.
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This development has startled liberals, who correctly perceive Cruz to be more right-wing than any Republican officeholder with such a clear path to the nomination.
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Given that Clinton is not a current federal officeholder, many campaign-finance lawyers have long believed that their options are particularly limited in the 2016 cycle.
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That could reflect that he was facing a well-known incumbent, which offers on average a meaningful benefit to the officeholder (despite Mr. Cruz's relative unpopularity).
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An 1859 portrait by the skilled George P. A. Healy transformed John Tyler, an officeholder short on charisma and executive savvy, into a lofty Romantic star.
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The voter ID law was passed after Heitkamp became North Dakota's only Democratic statewide officeholder in 2012, in part due to support from Native American voters.
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The choice had much to do with the presumed front-runner: Scott Angelle, a longtime state officeholder who is from a well-known Cajun political family.
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Some of Pruitt's reimbursements were for "officeholder expenses" -- meaning items needed for his role as attorney general -- after he was elected in 123 and re-elected in 2014.
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Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
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If the officeholder is perceived as being independent, he or she is often the only person in the world who can call warring parties to the peace table.
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Bryce, whose prodigious mustache has earned him the nickname Ironstache, is aiming to unseat the current officeholder of Wisconsin's First District, Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.
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Whatever the reason, there was something striking about an entirely explicable outcome for a change: A generally unassuming incumbent defeated a disgraced former officeholder by a considerable margin.
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By virtue of her selection by colleagues as the House Speaker, which occurred for a second time in 2019, she is the highest female officeholder in U.S. history.
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Nixon was taught by Roger Ailes and others that as a political candidate and as a political officeholder, one must seek to command any landscape that you occupy.
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And in today's very partisan environment (particularly in a polarized state like California), the benefits one would derive from voting for one slightly more moderate officeholder are vanishingly small.
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Our chairman is also a woman and a prominent officeholder in the bank, not to mention all of the women that work in our campaign, and there are many.
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Seven percent of the subjects had made calls to a firearms sale or repair shop, while another 4 percent could be linked to a specific political officeholder or campaign.
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He served on the LA City Council from 2003 until January of 2013, meaning that he would have been an elected officeholder at the time of the alleged assault.
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He is the epitome of an establishment Republican officeholder, after two decades in the House and the Senate, in what is an anti-establishment election for many Republican voters.
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The latter are shaped through interpretations by the presiding officer, battles between the parties and the charged political emotions during a moment in history when an officeholder is threatened.
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To be black and serve in state office was one thing, but to be the most powerful elected officeholder in a state in the deep South was quite another.
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If Clinton wins the White House, Ryan will again be his party's top officeholder and immediately will be seen as a prime contender for the Republican nomination in 2020.
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He has the endorsement of every Democratic statewide officeholder and state legislator in Virginia, as well as powerful interest groups like Naral Pro-Choice America and the Virginia Education Association.
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Government officials are not allowed to use campaign resources for personal expenses, including legal bills for charges that could have happened irrespective of whether the person is a federal officeholder.
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The most shocking part is that the United States' own commitment to values is being challenged from within—from the very officeholder once considered the leader of the free world.
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One could make the argument—as she implicitly does—that this particular officeholder, the one who certifies elections, needs to be seen as credible by the widest possible swath of constituents.
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Wang had hit the informal retirement age on the standing committee, but the vice presidency has no upper age limit, nor a requirement that the officeholder be a standing committee member.
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Lofgren noted that criminal violations like defacing a post office box would be a federal crime but would be scoffed at if lawmakers used that premise to remove a federal officeholder.
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If any high-ranking Republican officeholder is reading this and would be game for taking part in the celebrity series, which will continue through December, please contact me through The Times.
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Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both impeached by the House, but acquitted by the Senate, which ultimately needs a two-thirds vote to convict a president or another federal officeholder.
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But the steps conservatives took to secure victory for a former officeholder illustrate just how much the anti-Trump energy on the left is putting Republicans on the defensive across the country.
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In all, Barr came across as what he is: a conventional conservative and a competent officeholder, who would have been at home in any other Republican Administration since the Second World War.
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But despite the unusual intervention of the nation's second-highest officeholder, Ms. Pounds was defeated on Tuesday night, losing the Republican nomination to Lance Gooden, a former member of the State Legislature.
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John Bel Edwards, a rare Democratic officeholder in the South, won re-election last month after campaigning on his support for a state law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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"The Framers recognized that in removing a sitting President, we would be acting against not only the officeholder, but also the voters who entrusted him with that position," Collins said in her statement.
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O'Connor, an elected county officeholder, is making things competitive in the Ohio 12th, which has been in Republican hands for 35 years and is up for grabs after the retirement of Pat Tiberi.
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While the Justice Department defended Gray's appointment as a legal one, lawmakers pushed back and another officeholder — the comptroller general — disagreed, beginning the first of several such fights over the past half century.
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That number that has remained relatively consistent for the past decade, regardless of the officeholder, the retired Marine Corps major general said in his first briefing since his appointment by Trump in April.
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The suggestion that the chaos caused daily by this uninformed, unfit, basically un-American officeholder has any historical precedent or might, in any way, work for the good of the country is ludicrous.
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That would suit Trump's sole talent for playing a successful character on TV. But the reality of the presidency is that it tends to reflect and magnify the inner truth of the officeholder.
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Even for a former officeholder, these legal expenses have their origin in the performance of the functions of a public office, and under tax law, the origin of the claim determines tax consequences.
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How it works: A searchable archive going live on Wednesday will include all ads across Google platforms including Search and YouTube that feature a candidate for a federal elected office or an incumbent officeholder.
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Separately but crucially, precisely because no actual president is going to check off her entire policy wishlist, it matters a great deal what in particular the officeholder decides to make a big push for.
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If a Democrat wins the White House next year, Republicans are likely to feel Democrats' impeachment efforts robbed Trump of reelection, and dog the next officeholder for the remainder of his or her presidency.
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Kevin Cramer's penchant for controversial remarks could damage their chances at one of the party's most prized opportunities to pickup the crucial seat occupied by Heitkamp, a rare Democratic statewide officeholder in the conservative state.
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"I'd try to advise all of them, Republican or Democrat, to stay focused on the kinds of things you want to exhibit if you're ultimately chosen as the candidate to become the officeholder," he said.
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Politics as a family tradition is a source of endless speculation inside of Washington and out, and the weight of being related to a current or former officeholder can be both a blessing and a curse.
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That puts Virginia Democrats in a politically tenuous position of forcing out Virginia's only black statewide officeholder — while two white officeholders accused of racist acts that played on African American stereotypes are clinging to their jobs.
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Mr. Trump is as much a celebrity as he is a politician, and he wants his rallies, which are only nominally about the officeholder he's in town for, to match the hype of other global celebrities.
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And they believe Harris — a three-term statewide officeholder in California, the Democratic Party's unofficial ATM — has left ripe for the picking a powerful network of supporters that belied her low polling in the 2020 race.
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The Constitution gives little guidance on impeachment aside from the most basic facts: the House can vote to charge presidents or other officials, and the Senate holds a trial to determine whether to remove the officeholder.
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Economists have pushed back that the market is driven by forces well beyond a president's control and that stock market growth during a president's first year can be attributed in large part to the previous officeholder.
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Raskin is considered the front-runner because he is currently an elected officeholder, having been a Maryland state senator for three terms; he has a definable base and a constituency that backs him with great enthusiasm.
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He's been an officeholder for more than three decades in our state, and not one time has any of this information ever been introduced publicly until some 30 days prior to the biggest election in his career.
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But unlike other likely or declared candidates, Gabbard didn't follow up her announcement with a trip to any of the early 2020 presidential primary states, a routine move for any federal officeholder thinking about running for president.
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In an interview with CNN, Lopez-Cantera argued that his name recognition as a statewide officeholder will help in a low-turnout primary -- and he says two of his opponents will be saddled with the unpopularity of Washington.
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That argument did little to quell the politicians' frustrations, given that the Mueller report has been public for weeks, and now the governor and almost every federal officeholder in the state knows the names of the two counties.
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As National Review editor Rich Lowry writes in a perceptive piece: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand President Donald Trump's populism or have a cogent theory of how to effect it in practice, including the president himself.
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If you give a political officeholder a permanent role on the council, whose primary responsibility is the long-term security of the country, it opens the door for decisions to be made with short-term political aims in mind.
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The company said in a blog post that people and groups buying ads that mention a political party, a candidate or an officeholder related to the parliamentary elections would need to make clear who is paying for the advertisement.
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" Those rules also contain a stipulation called the "irrespective test," which prohibits the use of funds to pay an expense that "would exist even in the absence of the candidacy or even if the officeholder were not in office.
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Heidi Heitkamp announced Thursday she will vote against Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation and, in doing so, risked enraging voters in her deep-red state just a month before they decide whether to keep their only Democratic statewide officeholder.
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In addition, Google will require ads that mention a political party, candidate or current officeholder to disclose who's paid for it, and publish a report showing who's paying for ads, who they're targeted to, and how much is being spent.
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Medicare and Social Security—which benefit mostly retirement-age Americans and together constitute nearly 40% of the federal budget—are often described as the "third rail" of politics, because of the devastating consequences for any officeholder who threatens to touch them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper joined the growing field of Democratic presidential candidates on Monday, hoping to position himself as a centrist and an experienced officeholder who is best poised to defeat Republican President Donald Trump in 2020.
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When an officeholder uses their authority to advance their own religious beliefs, to the detriment of those who hold a different view, they directly threaten the right of every American to be free from the coercive power of the government.
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And he has told allies he believes she would excite voters in a way that a more typical Republican officeholder in Jackson, the state capital, would not, and he views her deep connections in the farming communities as significant political assets.
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Under the law, a person who claims to be an officeholder of a banned party could be imprisoned for up to three years, and a member could be imprisoned for up to one year, or two years for a subsequent offense.
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And even 41 percent of Republican-leaning respondents, who mostly dislike the ACA, told Gallup they'd rather have single-payer than Obamacare—a position that, as far as I can figure out, not a single Republican officeholder has ever endorsed.
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Her change of heart, reinforced by Trump's handling of last week's Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, could bode well for Democrat Danny O'Connor, a 249-year-old local officeholder running for an Ohio congressional seat Republicans have held since 0003.
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"Each day that passes, the nation's highest officeholder is making critical foreign policy decisions under a cloud of potentially divided loyalty caused by his enrichment from foreign states," they wrote in a brief filed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
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Tuesday also brought good news for other female candidates in crowded races — Democrat Susie Lee won a key primary in Nevada's 3rd Congressional District and Arrington is poised to become the first female federal officeholder in South Carolina following her GOP primary victory.
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ATLANTA — Karen Handel, a veteran Republican officeholder, overcame a deluge of liberal money to win a special House election in Georgia on Tuesday, bridging the divide in her party between admirers of President Trump and those made uneasy by his turbulent new administration.
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Grover Norquist is the head of Americans for Tax Reform, the creator of the "no new taxes" pledge that virtually every Republican officeholder has signed, and the founder of the Wednesday meetings that bring together basically every group of note on the American right.
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Under the law, a person who claims to be an officeholder of the party could be imprisoned for up to three years, and anyone who provides a place for the group to meet could be imprisoned for up to a year for a first offense.
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In Pence's case, Trump still has a second term he's trying to win, meaning his vice president won't be making any public moves of his own until after this November, once it's clear he'd be campaigning in 2024 as an incumbent or a former officeholder.
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As Sanders, the independent who refused to ever join a political party, looks to romp to a victory in New Hampshire with an anti-billionaire message, Bloomberg, who was a Republican and an independent officeholder before joining Democrats, is opening his own wallet big time.
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Opinion Columnist Once upon a time, prominent Democrats called for the impeachment of a powerful conservative officeholder, only to be embarrassed into silence when it turned out that the basis for their calls was arguable and incomplete, handing their Republican opponents a P.R. coup.
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Miller's case is notable because he's not a former attorney general advising a company, like many of the members of the group he formed for JUUL—he's a current officeholder who seems to be operating in a role somewhere in between lawyer and lobbyist.
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Though Trump publicly announced his intention to nominate Wilkie, he'll have to step down from the acting role for Trump to make Wilkie's nomination official, since the Vacancies Reform Act prohibits an acting officeholder from being nominated to serve in the top position permanently.
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" As a temporary officeholder, the president "might receive a bribe which would enable him to live in greater splendor in another country than his own; and when out of office, he was no more interested in the prosperity of his country than any other patriotic citizen.
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MANDEVILLE, La. — It has so far been a mostly humdrum race for Louisiana's open United States Senate seat, likely to end in a victory for some veteran officeholder: the Republican state treasurer, one of the congressmen, maybe even, in a surprise, a Democratic public service commissioner.
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In March, Nessel, Michigan's first openly gay statewide officeholder, announced an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan over a lawsuit filed by two lesbian couples who sued the state, claiming they had been turned away from adoption agencies, according to the Detroit News.
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He was specifically bothered by Grimes telling CNN Tuesday night that Beshear had won the race and cited a number of scandals surrounding the outgoing Democratic officeholder, including the conviction of her father, Democratic powerbroker Jerry Lundergan, for illegally funding Grimes' 2014 Senate campaign against Sen.
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There's no church to slot into as a deacon, no chance on the shop floor to rise as a foreman, no union in which to become a shop steward or officeholder, no big-city political machine that in this digital age needs anyone to go door to door.
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Professor Tucker added that it was smart of Twitter to take action against someone who is not an office holder and is in a primary election, so the company could not be accused of interfering with a current public officeholder or affecting the outcome of a general election.
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Were Ms. Giunchigliani, a veteran officeholder and outspoken liberal, to be nominated, Mr. Reid said, the casino executives who dominate Nevada politics would not only throw their support to Adam Laxalt, the likely Republican candidate for governor — they would also work to wrest control of the state Legislature away from Democrats.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) The most senior Republican officeholder in the nation has drawn a sharper distinction between himself and Trump than have most of his Capitol Hill colleagues.
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"If Trump were a less divisive figure, we might ... consider that what looks like incompetence or impertinence on the part of the officeholder could also be evidence that the office itself is broken," John Dickerson, co-anchor of "CBS This Morning," writes in the cover story of the May issue of The Atlantic.
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In its first filing, the Trump legal team hammered what it calls "procedural irregularities" in the House's impeachment process and the decision by Democrats not to accuse the president of committing a statutory crime — a threshold that constitutional scholars have long said isn't a necessity when Congress seeks to remove a federal officeholder.
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In the 19 previous cases in which a federal officeholder was impeached, the Senate has never declined to hold a trial — though in one case, in 1873, a federal judge resigned before a trial could take place, and in another case, from 1926, a judge resigned while the trial was taking place.
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The campaign told BuzzFeed News that 14 more black leaders in the state would support Biden for president, including Robin Winston, former Indiana Democratic Party state chair; Jerald Harkness, a filmmaker; Lacy Johnson, an Indianapolis attorney and Democratic Party insider; Nathaniel Lee, a former state officeholder; and Tammi Davis, a Gary, Indiana, official.
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"If the President succeeds in running out the clock, an entire presidential term will have gone by with the nation's highest officeholder making countless foreign policy decisions while under a cloud of potentially divided loyalty and compromised judgment caused by his enrichment from foreign states," lawyers for the Democrats wrote in the court filing.
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Mark SanfordMarshall (Mark) Clement SanfordScaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump Sunday shows - Recession fears dominate Possible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat MORE was the latest Republican officeholder to learn this lesson after he lost a party primary election last week.
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"When you have a candidate who is a federal officeholder already and is known to engage in this spending," Noti said, "there is a fair perception that people who donate to the campaign know that some portion of their money is going to get routed to the candidate because of the history of this spending."
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Historians and political scientists often use the term "Imperial Presidency" to refer to the fact that the American president, at least since the dawn of the Cold War in the 211s, has war-making powers closer to that of an absolute monarch than an officeholder in a republic who is bound by the rules of law.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyAppropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions Graham moves controversial asylum bill through panel; Democrats charge he's broken the rules MORE (D-Vt.), refused to say whether President Trump may be subject to the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any officeholder from receiving gifts from a foreign power.
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Op-Ed Contributor The recent decision by China's National People's Congress to abolish term limits for the office of the president has sent shock waves through the West: Xi Jinping, the current officeholder, is suddenly being described as a new Confucian autocrat, overseeing a state still governed by a Marxist-Leninist party, presiding over a selectively capitalist economy, with ambitions to make his country a global superpower.
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He has hired 25 field organizers, about a quarter the size of former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Biden allies: Warren is taking a bite out of his electability argument Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat MORE's team, but he is the only candidate to have won a coveted endorsement from a statewide officeholder.
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