Richard Blumenthal

"You're Richard Racist"

### Former Parties

United Callurs, People's Party, Based Party (1), People's Progressive Party, Calluris Fascist Party, Based Party (2), Based Party (3).

### Notable Positions

President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, Senator, Speaker of the Senate, Speaker of the Parliament, Chief Circuit Judge, Circuit Judge

### Awards and Honors

Presidential Medal of Merit, President’s Award for Innovation and Activity, Medal of Valor

Richard Blumenthal joined the Republic of Calluris near the end of the first Republic, quickly becoming one of its most active members and thus being elected to the office of President after announcing his candidacy shortly after entering the country. Blumenthal would end up serving as the last President of the First Republic, after the great RoD exodus took place, resulting in RoD taking over the first Republic, and the owner, Senator Nature, establishing the Second Republic. The First Republic was eventually nuked by anti-RoD radical Big Blake and his followers, Richard was elected as the first President after ownership decided to revert the government. The Second Republic did not last long however, before being nuked as well, resulting in the creation of the third Republic, in which Blumenthal ran for President once again and won the election, becoming the first President of the Third Republic, and beginning the main period of his political career.

Blumenthal was relatively popular during the first week of his term as President, after being elected with a 60% majority of the vote, and signed the first Penal Code into law, while creating the first Supreme Court of Calluris and making the Third Republic quite active. Following the midterm elections however, Blumenthal's popularity decreased, as he found himself being sued constantly in the Circuit Court, and displayed great incompetency in the courtroom, especially infuriating Judge Copley, who grew to dislike the President. This led to Blumenthal's resignation near the end of his term.

Blumenthal would then join the Senate, winning his Senate Election with a large majority of the vote and serving one term as a Senator. During this time, Blumenthal was a very controversial Senator, suing many citizens of Calluris constantly, and usually frivolously, and was accused of troll voting on legislation proposed to the Senate. Blumenthal would serve his full term as Senator before deciding to run for President again, but was defeated by Senator Romulus, who was largely supported as an opposing candidate to Senator Blumenthal.

Blumenthal, following his defeat in this election, would then withdraw from politics for about two weeks during the duration of the Romulus administration, before running for Senate again after this time period, again winning his election, but this time with a less substantial majority of the vote. Blumenthal would then be elected as Prime Minister by the Senate, but would become a controversial Prime Minister, obstructing popular President Joestar and eventually resigning from office and being succeeded by Prime Minister Alex Jones.

Blumenthal would again take a break from politics around this time, before later running for President against Chief Justice Swiff. He won the election with a 45% minority of the vote, but later admitted to bribing his way into office, leading to calls from the Senate for his impeachment. This led to a series of events that resulted in the resignation of Blumenthal, who again returned to obscurity, and was later arrested for violating TOS.

Blumenthal would then serve 4 days in prison after being handed a 14 day sentence by Judge Francis following a trial, However thanks to General Buttnaked and Generals legal council Hon. Copley Woofers aka Copley they were able to find issues with the trial resulting in it being overturned and release from prison early. Blumenthal however during his time in prison, would become more attached to the Republic of Discord, and later, during the Deegan administration, would be charged with treason for attempting to initiate a war between the Republic of Calluris and the Republic of Discord without the consent of the President or the Senate.

Blumenthal was then arrested again for treason. Judge Copley, the presiding Judge over the case, denied a proposed plea deal by the Ministry of Justice, and Blumenthal was sentenced to 25 days of jail and was released on February 14th of 2022, Valentines Day. He ran in the February 19th 2022 election. Although he dropped out of the election after putting up a fight after his main opponent, President Kramer, proposed he would pay for all his campaign expenses, make sure his real life friend Thats Cap, became Prime Minister, and making Richard the CSA Commissioner. He has said that he is going to retire from politics although he has not confirmed. He then got banned on June 5th, 2022 after faking the doxxing of a beloved member of the server. Due to his ban, the server resulting in the decline and death of the server. On June 16th, 2022 he got unbanned resulting in a jump in activity but was banned the next day after accidently doxxing the server owner, Nature. On June 23rd he was unbanned but later banned once again.

After several arguments over the unbanning of him he became a permanent member of Calluris again. One week after Richard was unbanned he became President and served 7 days until a fake resignation popped up and ownership who didn't like him accepted it. Later the Supreme Court ruled that ownership forcefully took President away from Richard due to ownership not verifying the resignation. Richard continued his term until resigned two days before his term ended. He later was banned from Calluris once again due to an unfavorable and biased ownership. Richard would later become a citizen of the Republic of Discord. His ban from Calluris resulted in the death of Calluris.

The "Richard Cycle", which was a cycle in where Richard would be banned from the server and once the server started to decline in activity Ownership would unban him and he would gain massive popularity within the Republic and be elected to President, which would then result in his popularity declining and getting banned again. The "Richard Cycle" would continue throughout the Summer of 2022 all the way to December of 2022. This cycle would later change in that instead of getting banned, he would just be arrested and his popularity would not rise as much and stay as long as it did with the old cycle.

Richard Blumenthal continued to become the most active member of Calluris even while in prison and serving life sentences. Although, many people found him unpopular as well as Ownership finding him unpopular, often denying his requests to run for office. The denying of his requests would set landmark Supreme Court cases that would result in giving prisoners many rights like voting and running for office. In 2023, Richard became more mature in what he did and was able to stay out of prison and gained some popularity, but not at the same extent that he had in the Third Republic with the "Richard Cycle." In March of 2023 he was jailed for a month and a half which resulted in a dip of activity which nobody stopped. During the start of the Summer of 2023, Richard would enter the legal profession and push to become a Circuit Judge. Though, due to a law, he had to be CLA certified (equivalent to BAR certified) to participate in the court. Due to Richard's push to law fame and the CLA's inactivity, many people who served in judicial positions were not CLA certified as they never sued or took the exam to gain CLA certification. Richard pushed for legislation to revise the law that established the CLA and restrictions it created and was able to get a law passed making it so judges don't need to be CLA certified. Richard would become a Circuit Judge after President Deegan nominating him at his end of the term and the Senate passing him as a "troll." Although, Richard's confirmation to Circuit Judge upset many, including the Chief Circuit Judge, Jiki Scott, who couldn't deal with him being confirmed and resigned from judge, upsetting even more. Although, Richard took the Chief Judge vacancy to his advantage and convinced the other Circuit Judges to vote him for him resulting in him becoming the Second Chief Judge of the Circuit Court.

Richard would serve as Chief Judge for around a month until it was found he was involved in some illegal activities, and was arrested. Although, while he was in prison, the Senate never impeached him from either of his positions of Judge and the other two judges were eager to get his Chief Judge spot. Richard did not budge though they pressured in him resigning from the position of Chief Judge and they held a Chief Judge election. Though, Richard used a loophole in the law requiring that the Chief Judge be elected with a 3/4ths majority of Circuit Judges to approve. He voted himself for Chief Judge after resigning several minutes earlier in an effort to keep the Chief Judge spot vacant so he could reclaim it. Though his efforts failed after the Senate impeached him from Circuit Judge and SunGlisten became the Third Chief Judge of Calluris.

Richard would be released from prison after almost serving a month. He would ask the President, Broski\_Biden, if he would nominate him to the vacant Circuit Judge spot which was created from SunGlisten joining the Senate. Broski\_Biden agreed after overwhelming support for his nomination. His nomination passed and after a struggle to get inaugurated, became a Circuit Judge. Though the Chief Judge spot was vacant because of previous SunGlisten joining the Senate. So he created a new GC for the Circuit Court after the previous one being destroyed with Judge Rhenic and Judge Calvin, with Calvin being revealed as a SunGlisten alt months later. He convinced both judges to vote him for and he became the Fourth Chief Judge of the Circuit Court, and the first Judge to serve in the position two times. He served as Chief Judge until becoming President. Although, he had a hostile Senate and found himself in an impeachment hearing only two hours after taking his oath. Many members in the Senate accused him of election fraud due to him hosting the election and accused him of deleting votes, though untrue. Blumenthal would later resign only 28 hours after he was elected.

Blumenthal helped establish the Parliamentary Republic of Calluris in hopes of reviving the server. He was put in charge of writing the Constitution, although many said it was the same one but worse. Blumenthal would attempt to become the first Prime Minister, which was the new head of government though failed to the popular Rhenic. Blumenthal would instead be elected as the first Speaker of Parliament.

After the Parliamentary Republic of Calluris failed, Blumenthal took a break from Calluris and hopped along from one mock gov to the next. He would later find GOVRN and start to integrate more and more into GOVRN culture. About the same time when Blumenthal first got started in GOVRN, the Sixth Republic of Calluris was established. Although, during the early days on the Sixth Republic, Blumenthal was hesitant to join. After some negotiations he finally joined. He would be elected to the Senate and serve as the first Speaker of the Senate for two weeks. Blumenthal faced much opposition from extreme political parties who were determined to bring him down. They had efforts to remove him from the Senate which resulted in a recall election which many people supported, especially in his home state of Euria. Blumenthal would file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court and was able to get an injunction to prevent the recall election, although his powers were enjoined and had no power in the Senate. Blumenthal would resign from Speaker of the Senate a few days after the injunction was filed due to having no voting or speaker power.

During the time the Supreme Court was writing the opinion to his Supreme Court case, he would leave Calluris and would be occasional visits, although never staying for long. After a week of visits, Blumenthal would again permanently settle although with a pro-GOVRN perspective. He was nominated to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, though failed to get the necessary votes. He would be confirmed as the Minister of Domestic Affairs which he continues to serve as of December 27th, 2023.