by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Birth date: February 7, 1952
Birth place: Narberth, Pennsylvania
Birth name: John Wright Hickenlooper Jr.
Father: John Hickenlooper Sr., a steel mill executive
Mother: Anne (Morris) MacDonald
Marriages: Robin Pringle (2016-present); Helen Thorpe (divorced)
Children: with Robin Pringle: Jack (December 8, 2022); with Helen Thorpe: Teddy
Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., English, 1974; Wesleyan University, M.A., Geology, 1980
Religion: Quaker
He suffers from prosopagnosia, or face blindness, a medical condition that makes it difficult to remember or recognize faces.
Is the first geologist to become a governor.
He plays a fictional senator in “Casino Jack,” a movie by his cousin George Hickenlooper, a filmmaker who died in 2010.
Hickenlooper struggled in school due to dyslexia.
1981-1986 – Works as an exploration geologist for Buckhorn Petroleum.
1988 – Opens the Wynkoop Brewing Company, Colorado’s first brewpub.
2003-2011 – Serves as mayor of Denver.
August 24, 2007 – Hickenlooper sells his stake in Wynkoop Brewing and its associated restaurants to his business managers and employees.
January 11, 2011-January 8, 2019 – Serves as governor of Colorado.
December 4, 2012 – Is appointed vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
March 20, 2013 – Signs three gun-control measures into law, including one that will require universal background checks for gun sales.
March 17, 2016 – Launches Skillful, an online service to help people without degrees find skill-based jobs, alongside LinkedIn co‐founder Allen Blue and Zoe Baird, CEO of the Markle Foundation.
March 4, 2019 – In a video titled “Standing Tall,” Hickenlooper announces he is running for president in 2020.
August 15, 2019 – Ends his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
August 22, 2019 – Announces his Senate candidacy.
June 5, 2020 – Colorado’s Independent Ethics Commission rules that Hickenlooper twice violated ethics laws in 2018. The complaint by a conservative group claims that Hickenlooper violated the state’s gift ban while he was governor. Hickenlooper is later fined almost $3,000 and is not expected to appeal the ruling.
November 3, 2020 – Hickenlooper is elected to the US Senate from Colorado, defeating Republican incumbent Cory Gardner.
August 19, 2021 – In a statement, Hickenlooper announces that he has tested positive for a breakthrough case of Covid-19 after experiencing mild symptoms.
by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of John Roberts, chief justice of the United States.
Birth date: January 27, 1955
Birth place: Buffalo, New York
Birth name: John Glover Roberts Jr.
Father: John Glover Roberts Sr., steel company executive
Mother: Rosemary (Podrasky) Roberts
Marriage: Jane (Sullivan) Roberts (July 27, 1996-present)
Children: Adopted with Jane Roberts: John and Josephine
Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1976; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979
Religion: Roman Catholic
He grew up in Long Beach, Indiana.
As an attorney for the government and in private practice, he argued 39 cases before the US Supreme Court and won 25 of them.
Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution.
Roberts is the youngest chief justice since John Marshall in 1801.
1979-1980 – Clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
1980-1981 – Clerk for Associate Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist.
1981-1982 – Special assistant to US Attorney General William French Smith.
1982-1986 – Associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan.
1986-1989 – Partner and head of the appellate division at Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC.
1989 – Roberts argues his first case before the Supreme Court: United States v. Halper.
1989-1993 – Principal deputy solicitor general for the US government.
1992 – Is nominated by President George H.W. Bush to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The nomination is never acted upon by the Senate.
1993 – Suffers a seizure.
1993-2003 – Returns to Hogan & Hartson.
2001 – Roberts represents 18 states and the District of Columbia in the appeal to the Microsoft antitrust case, U.S. v. Microsoft.
May 2001 – Is nominated by President George W. Bush to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The vote stalls when the Democrats take control of the Senate in June 2001.
November 13, 2002 – Roberts defends Megan’s Law before the Supreme Court. The law creates a registry for sex offenders that can be searched online.
May 8, 2003 – The Senate unanimously votes to confirm his appointment to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
September 5, 2005 – Is nominated by George W. Bush to be chief justice of the United States following the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist.
September 12-15, 2005 – Senate confirmation hearings take place. On September 29, the Senate votes 78-22 to confirm Roberts.
2007 – Suffers another seizure. The Supreme Court later says in a statement that doctors called the episode a “benign idiopathic seizure,” similar to the one suffered by Roberts in 1993. An idiopathic seizure is one with no identifiable physiological cause.
January 21, 2009 – Re-administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama one day after the official swearing-in ceremony, during which Roberts misplaced a word in the oath and caused Obama to stumble over the recitation.
June 28, 2012 – In National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, Roberts casts the deciding vote, 5-4, and writes the majority opinion in favor of the Affordable Care Act.
June 25, 2013 – The court strikes down portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with Roberts writing in the majority opinion that “our country has changed,” suggesting that many of the issues addressed by the law have been resolved.
June 25, 2015 – Roberts writes the court’s majority decision in King v. Burwell, saving the Affordable Care Act by authorizing federal tax credits for eligible Americans living not only in states with their own exchanges but also in the 34 states with federal marketplaces.
June 26, 2015 – Roberts writes a dissent against the court’s ruling that legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.
May 23, 2016 – With a majority opinion written by Roberts, the court rules in favor of a death row inmate who claims he did not get a fair trial because of racial discrimination during the jury selection process.
December 31, 2017 – Roberts announces, in his year-end report on the state of the judiciary, that an evaluation of how the judicial branch handles allegations of sexual harassment will take place in 2018. Roberts says recent events “have illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace” and made clear that the “judicial branch is not immune.”
June 26, 2018 – Roberts writes the majority opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban stating, “The Proclamation is squarely within the scope of Presidential authority.”
November 21, 2018 – Roberts issues a statement in response to Trump criticizing District Court Judge Jon Tigar as an “Obama judge.” Roberts says, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
January 16, 2020 – After being sworn in by Sen. Chuck Grassley, Roberts administers an oath to US senators to do “impartial justice, according to the Constitution and laws.” Roberts will preside over the impeachment trial against President Trump.
January 22, 2020 – Scolds both the Democratic House managers and Trump’s defense team after a contentious exchange on the Senate floor during the impeachment trial, saying, “I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the House managers and the President’s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body.”
January 30, 2020 – Roberts publicly refuses to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky during the Senate impeachment trial that names the alleged Ukraine whistleblower.
February 5, 2020 – Roberts is presented a golden gavel for presiding over the impeachment trial before thanking the Senate and officially adjourning the trial. Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
June 21, 2020 – Roberts is briefly hospitalized after falling while walking near his home, according to a spokeswoman for the Supreme Court.
May 3, 2022 – Roberts announces the Supreme Court will investigate the leak of a draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade. In a statement, Roberts says, “This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.” On January 19, 2023, the Supreme Court issues an investigative report, announcing that it has yet to determine who leaked a draft opinion.
June 29, 2023 – Roberts delivers the majority opinion ending affirmative action for college admission programs.
by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at horse racing’s Triple Crown. The three races in the Triple Crown are the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.
A horse must win all three races to achieve the Triple Crown.
There have been 13 Triple Crown winners:
– 1919 Sir Barton
– 1930 Gallant Fox
– 1935 Omaha
– 1937 War Admiral
– 1941 Whirlaway
– 1943 Count Fleet
– 1946 Assault
– 1948 Citation
– 1973 Secretariat
– 1977 Seattle Slew
– 1978 Affirmed
– 2015 American Pharoah
– 2018 Justify
June 9, 2018 – Justify, ridden by Mike Smith, wins the 150th Belmont Stakes. Justify becomes the 13th horse to achieve the Triple Crown. Justify is the first undefeated horse to complete the Triple Crown since 1977.
The Kentucky Derby is traditionally run the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Derby is 1.25 miles in length.
The age limit for horses in the Derby is 3 years.
The winner is given a blanket of roses, so the race is also known as the “run for the roses.”
1875 – The Kentucky Derby is established.
May 6, 2023 – Mage, a 3-year-old chestnut colt, wins the 149th Kentucky Derby.
The Preakness is traditionally run the third Saturday in May at Pimlico in Baltimore.
The Preakness is 1 and 3/16 miles in length.
The winner is covered by a blanket of black-eyed Susans.
May 27, 1873 – The first Preakness Stakes is run.
1890-1909 – The Preakness is run at Gravesend Track in Brooklyn, New York.
May 20, 2023 – National Treasure wins the 148th running of the Preakness Stakes.
The Belmont Stakes is generally run on the first or second Saturday in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
The longest of the three triple crown races at 1.5 miles; often referred to as the “Test of the Champion.”
Secretariat set a world record at the race that still stands for the mile and a half distance on a dirt track at 2:24.
The winner of the race is given a blanket made of between 300-400 white carnations, the traditional flower of the Belmont Stakes.
The Belmont Stakes is the oldest of the Triple Crown events.
June 19, 1867 – The first Belmont Stakes takes place at Jerome Park in the Bronx, New York.
June 10, 2023 – Jena Antonucci becomes the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race when Arcangelo wins the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes.
by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of investor Carl Icahn.
Birth date: February 16, 1936
Birth place: Brooklyn, New York
Birth name: Carl Celian Icahn
Father: Michael Icahn, cantor and teacher
Mother: Bella (Schnall) Icahn, teacher
Marriages: Gail Golden (1999-present); Liba Trejbal (1979-1999, divorced)
Children: with Liba Trejbal: Michelle and Brett
Education: Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, 1957; Attended New York University Medical School, 1957-1960
Military Service: US Army
Did a brief stint in the Army after dropping out of medical school.
Was close to his uncle M. Elliot Schnall, who loaned him $400,000 to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Has been sued and investigated numerous times for issues ranging from corporate debt payment to possible federal securities violations.
Has been referred to as a “corporate raider” amid accusations of utilizing a strategy known as greenmail: forcing targeted companies to repurchase their own shares at higher (premium) prices.
Oliver Stone met with Icahn while working on the 1987 film “Wall Street.” Icahn supplied character Gordon Gekko’s line, “If you need a friend, get a dog.”
Has held positions in numerous corporations, including: RJR Nabisco, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, American Can, USX, Marvel, BEA Systems and Time Warner.
Funds Foundation for a Greater Opportunity, which developed the Icahn Charter Schools in New York City.
Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island in New York is named after him.
1961 – Joins Dreyfus & Co. as a broker.
1963 – Joins Tessel, Patrick & Co. as an options manager.
1964-1968 – Runs the options department at Gruntal & Co.
1968 – With help from his uncle, starts Icahn & Co., serves as chairman and president.
1978 – As the largest shareholder of Tappan stock, Icahn precipitates a proxy fight. Tappan is later sold to Electrolux, and stock prices double.
1979 – Becomes chairman of the Bayswater Realty & Capital Corporation.
1985 – Attempts an unsuccessful $8 billion buyout of Phillips Petroleum. Icahn earns a reported $50 million selling his shares back to Phillips.
1985 – Purchases Trans World Airlines (TWA).
1988 – Icahn, the largest shareholder in Texaco Inc., threatens a proxy fight to fill five seats on the company’s board. He loses, but continues to purchase more stock in the company.
1988 – Icahn takes TWA private and controls 90% of the stock. He earns $469 million for the deal. The airline remains $540 million in debt.
January 1989 – After negotiations with Texaco, Icahn signs a seven-year agreement to neither buy more stock nor make a takeover bid. His stake in shares is worth $2.2 billion.
1991 – In a deal with American Airlines, Icahn sells half of TWA’s valuable London routes for $445 million.
1992 – TWA declares bankruptcy.
1993 – TWA emerges from bankruptcy. Creditors, including Icahn, own 55% of TWA. He resigns as chairman of TWA, with the airline owing him $190 million.
1995 – TWA and Icahn settle on the Karabu ticket agreement, which states that for eight years, Icahn can purchase any ticket through St. Louis for $.55 on the dollar and resell at a discount.
2000 – Makes multiple bids for Nabisco Group. Philip Morris Co., the parent company of Kraft Foods, wins, but Icahn still comes away with $600 million for himself and his investors.
2004 – Icahn begins raising $3 billion to start the hedge fund, Icahn Partners.
September 17, 2004 – Icahn discloses he holds an 8.9% stake in Mylan Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company which is in talks to buy rival King Pharmaceuticals.
October 14, 2004 – Icahn files a proxy statement with the SEC, claiming Mylan’s acquisition of King would be too expensive.
October 28, 2004 – King Pharmaceuticals announces it may have to restate its finances.
November 11-26, 2004 – After Blockbuster, Movie Gallery and a buyout firm all make unsolicited bids to buy Hollywood Entertainment Corp., Icahn spends two weeks buying an 8.4% stake in Hollywood Entertainment.
November 19, 2004 – Icahn makes a public bid for full ownership of Mylan Laboratories for $4.9 billion (for a total of $5.4 billion), to keep it separate from King Pharmaceuticals.
December 2004 – Icahn says he supports a merger between Blockbuster and rival Hollywood Entertainment.
February 27, 2005 – The deal between Mylan and King is officially off.
2005 – Buys 10 million shares of Blockbuster, becomes the largest shareholder with a 9.7% stake, and launches a proxy fight.
July 2005 – Icahn drops his bid to buy Mylan Laboratories and is expected to sell back 94% of his shares, making about a 14% profit.
October 2005 – Icahn sends a letter to Time Warner shareholders, pushing for new directors and stressing that the stock is undervalued.
February 7, 2006 – Icahn announces his desired plan for Time Warner: split up into four different companies and a $20 billion share buyback.
February 17, 2006 – After a six-month proxy fight, Time Warner and Icahn reach an agreement. Time Warner increases its share buyback amount to $20 billion, agrees to appoint two independent directors to the board and the company remains intact.
March 2010 – Icahn sells a majority of his shares in Blockbuster for a loss of $180 million.
March 2011 – Announces he will return outside investors’ money from his hedge funds.
October 2012 – Icahn’s funds have acquired about a 10% stake in Netflix.
August 13, 2013 – Icahn announces he has a “large” stake in Apple, and that the company is “extremely undervalued.”
October 2013 – Icahn sells more than half his stake in Netflix, gaining more than $800 million while still holding a 4.5% stake.
October 23, 2013 – Icahn sends a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, proposing Apple conduct a $150 billion share buyback.
February 10, 2014 – In an open letter to Apple shareholders, Icahn drops his campaign for pushing the company toward a higher buyback plan.
October 9, 2014 – Icahn, in an open letter to Tim Cook, states that Apple stock is undervalued and once again pushes the CEO to increase its stock buybacks. Icahn owns about 53 million shares.
May 18, 2015 – Although Apple has already announced plans to increase its share repurchase plan from $90 billion to $140 billion, Icahn releases an open letter to Tim Cook, calling for a much larger buyback.
December 21, 2016 – President-elect Donald Trump’s transition office announces that Icahn has agreed to serve as a special adviser on regulatory reform.
February 7, 2017 – States he won’t invest the $100 to $200 million needed to reopen the shuttered Taj Mahal Casino, but will sell it instead. Icahn closed the casino in 2016, after failing to reach a labor agreement with its union employees.
August 18, 2017 – Announces he has stepped down as a special adviser to President Trump.
November 3, 2017 – In a company filing, Icahn Enterprises says it is cooperating with a request from the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which is seeking information relating to Icahn’s role as an adviser to President Trump.
May 26, 2020 – Icahn sells his 39% of Hertz shares at a $2 billion loss after the rental car company filed for bankruptcy.
January 3, 2021 – Herbalife Nutrition announces it is buying back roughly $600 million worth of shares from Icahn. Icahn is also giving up his firm’s five board seats.
February 15, 2022 – “Icahn: The Restless Billionaire,” a documentary exploring the life of Icahn, debuts on HBO.
October 17, 2023 – Icahn sues the board of directors of Illumina, Inc., a biotechnology company, for breach of fiduciary duties.
by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.
Birth date: February 11, 1953
Birth place: Midland, Texas
Birth name: John Ellis Bush
Father: George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States
Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush
Marriage: Columba (Garnica Gallo) Bush (February 23, 1974-present)
Children: John Ellis “Jeb” Jr., Noelle Lucilla and George Prescott
Education: University of Texas, B.A. in Latin American Studies, 1974
Religion: Catholic (converted – was Episcopalian)
Second-oldest son of former President George H.W. Bush and younger brother of former President George W. Bush.
Speaks fluent Spanish.
Known for his Florida education reform: introducing a school voucher program, supporting charter schools, implementing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) and banning using race as a factor in university admissions.
1981 – Moves to Florida and begins working in real estate development.
1987-1988 – Florida commerce secretary. Resigns to help his father with his presidential campaign.
1994 – Loses the gubernatorial race to Governor Lawton Chiles (D-FL).
1995 – Founds the Foundation for Florida’s Future.
January 5, 1999-January 2, 2007 – Republican Governor of Florida.
November 5, 2002 – With 56% of the vote, becomes the first Republican governor to win reelection in Florida.
2007 – Forms Jeb Bush & Associates, a consulting firm.
2008 – Launches the Foundation for Excellence in Education, based in Tallahassee, Florida. Bush is announced as chairman and president of the board in May 2016.
March 2013 – Bush’s book “Immigration Wars,” written with Clint Bolick, is published.
December 14, 2014 – During an interview, Bush says that he will release 250,000 emails from his two terms in office as Florida governor and will publish an eBook outlining his governing philosophy.
December 16, 2014 – In a Facebook post, Bush states, “I have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.”
January 1, 2015 – An aide confirms to CNN that Bush has resigned from all of his corporate and nonprofit board memberships, including forestry company Rayonier Inc., the board at Tenet Healthcare Corporation, and the board of British bank Barclays.
January 6, 2015 – Bush launches a new political action committee that allows him to lay the groundwork for a presidential run.
March 11, 2015 – Bush announces he is selling his ownership stakes in his remaining business interests.
June 15, 2015 – Bush formally announces his presidential campaign during an appearance at Miami Dade College.
June 30, 2015 – Releases 33 years of tax returns.
February 20, 2016 – Following a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary, Bush suspends his presidential campaign.
March 23, 2016 – Endorses Ted Cruz for the Republican presidential nomination.
September 2018 – Bush is named a Presidential Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2018-2019 school year.
March 11, 2019 – The nonprofit Campaign Legal Center posts a settlement agreement online showing the FEC fined the Jeb Bush super PAC Right to Rise $390,000 for soliciting a contribution from a foreign national and the American Pacific International Capital $550,000 for making the contribution.
by tyler | Jan 25, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Birth date: February 11, 1964
Birth place: Sandpoint, Idaho
Birth name: Sarah Louise Heath
Father: Charles Heath, a teacher
Mother: Sarah (Sheeran) Heath
Marriage: Todd Palin (1988-2020, divorced)
Children: Trig, April 18, 2008; Piper, March 19, 2001; Willow, July 5, 1994; Bristol, October 18, 1990; Track, April 20, 1989
Education: University of Idaho, B.S., 1987
Religion: Christian
First female governor of Alaska.
Was a runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant.
Her fifth child, Trig, was born with Down syndrome.
Was a Fox News contributor off and on between 2010 and 2015.
1992-1996 – Member of the Wasilla City Council.
1996-2002 – Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
2002 – Loses bid to become lieutenant governor of Alaska.
2003-2004 – Serves on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
November 7, 2006 – Is elected governor of Alaska, defeating former two-term governor Tony Knowles (49% to 41%).
December 4, 2006-July 26, 2009 – Governor of Alaska.
July 28, 2008 – Alaska state legislators vote to hire an investigator to determine if Palin fired former state Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan because he would not fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, a state trooper.
August 6, 2008 – A former state employee files an ethics complaint against Palin, accusing her of using her position to get a supporter a government position.
August 29, 2008 – Named as Arizona Senator John McCain’s vice presidential running mate.
September 1, 2008 – Announces her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant, and the McCain campaign releases a statement that McCain knew about the pregnancy when he selected Palin as his running mate.
September 3, 2008 – Accepts the Republican Party’s nomination for vice president at the Republican National Convention.
October 10, 2008 – State investigator Stephen Branchflower releases a report that Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired.
October 18, 2008 – Appears on “Saturday Night Live” with lookalike Tina Fey.
November 3, 2008 – Alaska’s Personnel Board releases a report concluding that Palin did not violate ethics law in relation to her ex-brother-in-law.
November 4, 2008 – McCain loses the presidential election to Barack Obama.
January 27, 2009 – Launches political action committee SarahPAC to raise money.
July 3, 2009 – Announces that she will be stepping down as governor of Alaska. Steps down on July 26.
November 2009 – Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” is published.
February 6, 2010 – Delivers the keynote address at the first national Tea Party convention.
March 25, 2010 – Discovery Communications announces Palin will appear in an eight-part documentary series, called “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” on the TLC network.
November 2010 – Palin’s book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag,” is published.
October 5, 2011 – Announces she is not running for president.
January 20, 2014 – In a Facebook post on Martin Luther King Day, Palin sends a message to Obama, “Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card.”
July 27, 2014 – The subscription-based Sarah Palin Channel launches online.
January 19, 2016 – Endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at an Iowa campaign stop.
March 13, 2016 – Palin’s husband, Todd, is seriously injured in a snow machine crash in Alaska. He is hospitalized for two weeks.
June 27, 2017 – Files a lawsuit against the New York Times alleging that a recent editorial falsely portrayed her as responsible for inciting the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords. On August 29, a federal judge dismisses the lawsuit, declaring that he sees no evidence of malicious intent.
August 6, 2019 – A federal appeals court reverses a lower court’s decision to dismiss Palin’s defamation lawsuit.
March 11, 2020 – Palin appears on “The Masked Singer,” performing a rendition of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.”
February 15, 2022 – A jury finds the New York Times not liable for defamation against Palin. After the jury delivers its unanimous verdict, Judge Jed Rakoff dismisses the case, citing that Palin has not met the standard for “actual malice.” The landmark 1964 New York Times vs. Sullivan case specifies that public figures who sue for defamation must prove that the offender knew the claim was false or showed “reckless disregard” for the truth.
April 1, 2022 – Palin announces that she is running for Congress, seeking to fill Alaska’s lone US House seat after the death of longtime Rep. Don Young.
August 31, 2022 – Loses to Democrat Mary Peltola in the special election to fill Alaska’s House seat for the remainder of 2022, according to unofficial results released by the Alaska Division of Elections. In a statement, Palin criticizes ranked-choice voting after the results are released. This is the first time Alaska has used the ranked-choice balloting system. Palin will get another shot at the House race in a few months, as she is among those vying to fill the full term in a separate election in November.
November 6, 2022 – Palin is once again defeated by Peltola in her bid for the House seat.
