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2008 California Proposition 8
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage. It passed in the November 2008 California state elections but was later overturned by the courts, which found the amendment unconstitutional in comparison to the U.S. Constitution. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling, In re Marriage Cases, which found the ban in 2000 on same-sex marriage (Proposition 22) unconstitutional.
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon (born 1969) is an American lawyer who has served as the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she is the former vice chair of the California Republican Party and a former Republican National Committeewoman for California.
She is the founder of a law practice called Dhillon Law Group Inc.
Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election
After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 62 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in 9 states (including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and the District of Columbia.
Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped for lack of evidence or lack of standing, including 30 lawsuits that were dismissed by the judge after a hearing on the merits. Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.
The 2021 California gubernatorial recall election was a special recall election that started in August 2021 and ended on September 14, 2021, when the majority of California voters chose not to recall incumbent Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, elected for the term January 2019 to January 2023.
Had the recall been successful, the replacement candidate with the most votes on the second part of the ballot would have assumed the office. The election followed the same format used in the November 2020 general election: in August, county election offices sent an official ballot to the mailing address of every registered voter, giving them the option to vote by mail on or before election day, or, when polling places opened statewide, to vote in-person.
The following is a list of ballot measures, whether initiated by legislators or citizens, which were certified to appear on various states' ballots during the 2026 United States elections.
At the beginning of Donald Trump's second presidential term, he signed a series of executive orders. Many of these tested his legal authority, and drew immediate legal action. He issued more executive orders on his first day than any previous president.
California Proposition 50, officially known as the Election Rigging Response Act, is an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of California, which was passed by voters in a special election ballot on November 4, 2025. At the urging of California governor Gavin Newsom, the proposition was put on the ballot by the Democratic-controlled California State Legislature. Approved by 64.4% of voters, the proposition's purpose was to redraw the state's congressional districts, replacing the ones drawn by the bipartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission during the earlier 2020 redistricting cycle.
Question 3 is a voter referendum that will be held on November 3, 2026. If approved by voters, it would clarify that guidelines in the Constitution of Maryland that require legislative districts to respect natural boundaries and the boundaries of political subdivisions only apply to Maryland's state legislative districts and not Maryland's congressional districts.