Mike Johnson (nonfiction)

James Michael Johnson (born January 30, 1972) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017. Johnson is currently the nominee of the House Republican Conference for Speaker of the House in the October 2023 speakership election.

An ideological member of the Christian right faction of the Republican Party,[1] Johnson is known for his strong opposition to legal abortion access, medical marijuana, and same-sex marriage.[2] In December 2020, Johnson signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. In January 2021, Johnson voted to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania.[3] Johnson has cultivated close ties to Christian right groups Louisiana Family Forum, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Focus on the Family.[4][5] Prior to his career as a politician, he worked with them to "represent churches, pastors and congregants whose vision of religious freedom conflicted with government regulations".[2] Johnson supports ending American military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.[2]

He has served as vice chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021. Johnson previously chaired the House Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, for one term, as well as a coalition of socially and fiscally conservative members of the larger House Republican Conference.[6] Prior to his service in Congress, Johnson served two incomplete terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 8th district in Bossier Parish, where he succeeded Jeff R. Thompson following his resignation, until he himself resigned to take his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

On October 24, 2023, after three votes by the Republican conference, Johnson became the fourth Republican nominee for Speaker of the House in the October 2023 speakership election, following the failed candidacies of Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, and Tom Emmer.[7][8] He received 128 votes on the third ballot.

Views

• Women have abortions after a baby is born
• Trump won the 2020 election
• Jan. 6th was a "legitimate protest"
• Covid was a hoax and vaccines are dangerous
• Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme"
• Cut Medicare
• Climate change is a hoax

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category: (nonfiction)

External links

• Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician @ Wikipedia

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (25 October 2023)