Levi Starkin

Levi James Starkin (Born August 31, 1985) was the 46th President of the United States. He was elected over Former Senate Majority Leader Palpatine in 2020, then again in 2024. He also served as Speaker of the House, and as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He currently serves as the 20th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is a self-described "living document" interpreter. In 2049, President Swanson awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom With Distinction for "his long time unfailing service to Congress, the White House and the Judiciary".
==Early Life==
===Childhood===
Levi Starkin was born in the Houston Heights to Tim and Averi Starkin on August 31, 1985. Growing up, he consistently saw the poverty and suffering that was rife within his own neighborhood. His parents struggled to pay rent every month, and his father was in and out of jobs every few months. Levi, after witnessing this, resolved to do everything he could to ensure that nobody had to suffer the way his parents and friends did.
Starkin began to study hard in high school, determined to help Americans all across the nation. He was a straight A student, and was in the top 10% of his graduating High School class.
A determined young man, Starkin graduated eight years later from Rice University Law School. After working as an Constitutional Law Attorney for two years, he decided to enter local politics. He became a State Representative in 2013, and after one term decided to move on to the federal level. He earned his first seat as a Representative in the United States House at age 30.
==Career==
Starkin earned his first Congressional position in 2015, quickly becoming a very noticeable member. In 2016, he was propelled to fame as he passed the Teachers Pay Raise Act, which mandated minimum wages of $75,000 for teachers across the Nation. Since then, he began to take bigger and bigger steps towards accomplishing his goal of helping every single American.
In 2019, Levi was approached by the DNC, who asked him to consider running for President. An eager Starkin agreed to this, and in 2020, was elected President. He was re-elected for his second term in 2024.
==President of the United States ==
=== Death of James Handle ===
Starkin won the presidency by a slight margin, securing his agenda for the next eight years. However, in the midst of all the celebration, tragedy struck. In May 2020, Vice President James Handle was assassinated by an unnamed Neo-Nazi, discontent with the election results. Around the same time, the group of Neo-Nazis responsible for the murder also bombed the United States Capitol, killing a few politicians and most of the Supreme Court. One of the main perpetrators was identified as Starkin's longtime rival, Barry Brown.
This led Starkin to appoint his Secretary of Health & Human Services, View, to the Vice Presidency. However, he was not confirmed, due to leaning too far to the left. After some introspection, Starkin decided to carry through on his original promise of a bipartisan ticket, and nominated a new Senator and ally Francis Durant, who was quickly confirmed by the majority Republican Senate.
=== First Term===
In his first term as President, Starkin accomplished many landmark goals, such as the creation, championing, and ratification of the Pacific Alliance Agreement, or the PAA, which was written by his Secretary of State North Mandela. In 2022 the Senate agreed to ratify it, creating a NATO-like force in the East to protect against China.
==== Coronavirus ====
Around the same time, the novel Coronavirus struck the United States, prompting Starkin to pass a multitude of Executive Orders, such as Executive Order No. 14105. Due to the Government's quick response to the virus, it was mostly calmed within a year or two, freeing up his ability to pass more of his domestic agenda. This led to him commuting the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders, taking all federal prisoners off of Death Row, and passing cybersecurity measures.
==== Russo-Ukraine War ====
In 2023, Russia began a "special military operation" in Ukraine, despite warnings from multiple UN and NATO leaders, involving Starkin. This soon escalated into war, and President Starkin passed another flurry of Executive Orders aimed at choking the Russian Economy and Military, as well as supporting Ukraine. Due to the combined efforts of the United States Government, NATO leadership, and the United Nations, Russia began to lose the war to their far smaller neighbor, and Putin had been humiliated on the world stage.
==== Durant Resigns ====
Vice President Francis Durant announced in 2024 that he would not be running alongside Starkin for reelection, leaving him to scramble to find a replacement. After much consideration, Starkin offered the now-vacant position to Winston Copeland, a former Governor. He accepted, and they hit the campaign trail together, and won by the tightest margin seen in United States history.
=== Second Term ===
Starkin's second term began with a bang. His former Vice President, Francis Durant, decided to resign from the Executive Office and instead ran for- and won- a seat in the Senate. Starkin's new Vice President, Winston Copeland, was incredibly controversial and inexperienced, which led to his impeachment by the Republican Controlled House. However, he was acquitted by the now-majority Democratic Senate.
==== Nomination of Secretary Mandela ====
After this, Copeland and Starkin agreed that it would be best for Copeland to step down. In his place, Starkin tapped then-Secretary of State, as well as longtime ally and friend North Mandela to be the next Vice President of the United States. He was confirmed by a large majority in the Senate, and has been serving in this capacity since 2025.
==== Starkin Administration Agenda ====
After the 2026 Midterms, the Starkin Administration began to hit the ground running with their agenda. The primary focus of the agenda is education reform, healthcare affordability, climate change prevention, and racial/sexual inequality.
== Southern Governorship ==
=== Special Election ===
After Starkin termed out of the Presidency, he decided to run for the now-vacant seat of Southern Governor. The previous Governor, Patrick IV, had left to become Vice President in the Mandela Administration. Starkin ran against Arthur Chen, with running mate Peter Garrettson. Starkin won the Governorship by a narrow margin, securing a democratic agenda in a republican-controlled state for the next two years.
=== Fights With Arthur Chen ===
Starkin and Chen began a long-lasting feud shortly after the President assumed office as Governor. Arthur Chen won State Speakership in the General Assembly, and tried to impeach Starkin on multiple accounts, such as poor wording of proposed bills. All attempts failed to reach a 2/3 majority of votes. As time went on, Chen and Starkin saw each other more and more in court, with some of the most notable cases being Starkin, et al. v. United States, Chen v. Starkin, and Chen v. South. As both have a background in law, both ended up winning a considerable amount of the cases.
=== Re-Election ===
At the end of his two-year special term, Starkin ran for re-election as Governor. This time, he faced off against multiple candidates, such as Arthur Chen and Peter Garrettson, however separately this time. Starkin once again won the Governorship.
== Secretary of Health & Human Services ==
Shortly after Starkin won re-election to the Freedonian (then-Southern) Governorship, then-President North Mandela approached him to offer a cabinet position as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Starkin, who had a background in emergency medicine, agreed to this, and was confirmed nearly unanimously by the Senate, where he served for a few months before eventually resigning to run for the United States House.
During his time as Secretary of HHS, Starkin worked to push the Mandela Administration's goal of affordable healthcare. He also worked to ensure a pandemic such as COVID would never happen again by strengthening task forces and promoting the credibility of the CDC and NIH.
== Speaker of the House of Representatives ==
=== Nomination ===
Starkin ran for a vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives, after having left the federal scene largely due to being Governor. He won with a very comfortable margin, and was immediately nominated to be the Democratic Nominee for Speaker of the House, and he eventually won the election in a Republican-Controlled House, defeating longtime rival Arthur Chen, who was also seeking the Speakership. 
== Passing the Torch ==
== Acting Attorney General ==
== Circuit Court Judge ==
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