George H. W. Bush
President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
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| February 7 2025 | The United States Department of Health and Human Services terminated a $168,000 contract for a Fauci museum exhibit at the National Institutes of Health. |
| January 20 2025 | President Biden preemptively pardons Fauci for potential future prosecution by an incoming Trump Administration. |
| January 20 2025 | Received an unprecedented pardon from President Biden just hours before leaving office. |
| January 20 2025 | President Trump rescinds the Secret Service protective detail for John Bolton upon returning to office. |
| January 19 2025 | President Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci for any potential federal offenses committed between January 1st, 2014 and the day of the pardon. |
| January 3 2025 | U.S. Judicial Conference announced it would not refer Thomas to the Justice Department over ethics allegations, citing legal uncertainty about its authority to make a criminal referral for a Supreme Court justice. |
| 2024 | John Bolton openly considered running for president in the 2024 United States presidential election to secure the Republican nomination against former President Donald Trump. |
| December 21 2024 | Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report revealing two additional trips Thomas took in 2021 paid for by Crow. |
| August 2024 | Luttig endorsed Kamala Harris in the presidential election, prioritizing the preservation of democracy and constitutional principles over policy differences. |
| July 1 2024 | Luttig strongly criticized the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States, condemning the decision to grant presidents immunity from prosecution as 'irreconcilable with America's democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law'. |
| June 2024 | Thomas filed an amendment to his 2019 financial disclosure report, disclosing previously omitted food and lodging at a hotel in Bali and a private club in California from Harlan Crow. |
| June 2024 | A secret recording captured Martha-Ann Alito discussing flag displays and making inflammatory comments about potential flag changes, which generated additional public controversy. |
| June 2024 | Drawn into controversy after a secretly recorded conversation where he appeared to agree with a filmmaker's assertion about Christians needing to 'win the moral argument'. |
| February 2024 | Angela, Elaine Chao's sister, died after backing her car into a pond. |
| February 18 2024 | Comedian John Oliver made a public offer on his show Last Week Tonight, proposing million per year for Thomas to step down from the Supreme Court, with a 30-day time limit and an additional gift of a motor coach worth an estimated million. |
| 2023 | Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. |
| 2023 | Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. |
| 2023 | In January 2023, Elaine Chao responded to Trump's racist attacks, stating that 'people had deliberately misspelled or mispronounced' her name and highlighting the hard work of Asian Americans to change that experience for future generations. |
| 2023 | Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Finance Committee opened investigations into Thomas's undisclosed gifts, finding additional unreported travel on Crow's private jet and superyacht. |
| 2023 | Roberts joined the liberal justices in Allen v. Milligan, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that ruled Alabama's congressional redistricting plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. He wrote the majority opinion, concluding that Alabama must draw an additional majority-minority district and affirmed that race can be considered in drawing electoral maps. |
| 2023 | The Pine Tree Flag was flown at Alito's beach house in New Jersey, which was associated with Christian nationalists and the Capitol attack, further fueling controversy about judicial impartiality. |
| 2023 | In a 2023 edition of his memoirs, Bolton criticized Donald Trump for punishing 'personal enemies and appeasing adversaries Russia and China.' |
| 2023 | PEPFAR was estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, with Vox describing it as 'George W. Bush's greatest accomplishment', particularly in alleviating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 2023 | Bush threw the first pitch in Game 1 of the 2023 World Series. |
| November 2023 | Luttig expressed grave concerns about Trump's potential return to the presidency, stating he was 'more worried for America today than on January 6' and describing a potential Trump election as 'catastrophic for America's democracy'. |
| August 19 2023 | Luttig, alongside Laurence Tribe, published an article arguing that Trump is constitutionally barred from presidential office under the Insurrection Clause due to his actions surrounding the January 6 Capitol attack. |
| July 2023 | Alito wrote an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal arguing that Congress lacks constitutional authority to regulate the Supreme Court, sparking debate with lawmakers like Senator Chris Murphy. |
| July 6 2023 | After President Joe Biden approved the provision of cluster munitions to Ukraine, Bolton praised the decision as 'an excellent idea.' |
| July 1 2023 | Fauci officially began his role as a distinguished professor at Georgetown University, teaching in the School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy. |
| June 26 2023 | Georgetown University announced that Fauci would join its faculty as a distinguished professor, teaching in both the School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy. |
| June 20 2023 | ProPublica published an investigation into Alito's relationship with billionaire Paul Singer, alleging he violated federal disclosure laws regarding a luxury fishing trip to Alaska and potentially improper gift acceptance. |
| May 2023 | ProPublica revealed that Crow paid private school tuition for Thomas's grandnephew Mark Martin, estimated at around $100,000, which was not reported on financial disclosure forms. |
| May 2023 | Michael Kirk directed a Frontline documentary about Clarence Thomas's life and career, narrated by Will Lyman. |
| April 2023 | ProPublica reported that Thomas had accepted luxury trips from Crow almost every year for two decades, including private jet flights, international cruises, and stays at private resorts, which were not disclosed as required by the Ethics in Government Act. |
| 2022 | Continued as a principal editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, contributing to the 21st edition. |
| 2022 | From July 2022 onward, former President Trump criticized Mitch McConnell's leadership on social media and directed racist attacks at Elaine Chao. |
| 2022 | Thomas authored an opinion expanding Second Amendment rights and significantly contributed to the Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade, becoming the most senior associate justice during this period. |
| 2022 | Becomes the oldest member of the Supreme Court after Stephen Breyer's retirement. |
| 2022 | In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Thomas argued for reconsidering other substantive due process precedents, including those related to contraception, sodomy, and same-sex marriage. |
| 2022 | Thomas authored the majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, guaranteeing the right of law-abiding citizens to carry firearms in public. |
| 2022 | Became the only military veteran on the Supreme Court following Stephen Breyer's retirement. |
| 2022 | William Barr planned to launch a law and consulting firm in partnership with Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel. |
| 2022 | In response to the alleged assassination plot, John Bolton was granted a protective detail from the United States Secret Service on the orders of President Joe Biden. |
| December 31 2022 | Stepped down from his roles as NIAID director and chief medical advisor. |
| August 22 2022 | Fauci announces he will step down from his position in December to 'pursue the next chapter' of his career. |
| August 10 2022 | An Iranian national, Shahram Poursafi, was charged by the United States Department of Justice in an alleged plot from October 2021 to murder John Bolton, reportedly in retaliation for the January 2020 death of Qasem Soleimani. |
| July 2022 | During an interview with CNN, John Bolton admitted to his personal involvement in planning unspecified coups d'état in foreign countries while denying that President Trump's actions related to the January 6 Capitol attack constituted an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government. |
| July 2022 | Luttig co-authored a 69-page report refuting claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. |
| June 24 2022 | Officially handed down the Dobbs ruling, overturning Roe v. Wade and declaring the original Roe decision 'egregiously wrong'. |
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