Charlie Williams

Charlie Williams (born November 25, 1990) is an American jurist and politician who served as the 12th president of the United States from March to May 2022. He previously served as the 8th vice president of the United States from April to June 2021, and was an in late 2021. A member of the, he represented in the  from January to March 2022, and previously from February to April 2021, holding the positions of , , and. A member of the, he was the U.S. Representative for 's from November 2020 to February 2021, holding the positions of , , and eventually.

Early Life
Charlie Williams was born on November 25th, 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Adam Williams and Mary Clark. He was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard Law School. He lived in Cambridge for a majority of his adult life and worked as a journalist for the Boston Globe.

U.S House of Representatives
Williams ran for U.S House in during the November election winning with 75% of the vote with 25% of it going to write-ins. He voted in a moderately conservative way. He ran for re-election in December and January winning with 83.3% unopposed in December and defeating Democrat Maxine Waters with 67% to her 33% in January. In February, he proposed the Banning Conversion Therapy Act which would officially ban Conversion Therapy and it was officially signed by President Benjamin Bryant on February 3rd, 2021. He proposed a bill that would have abolished the use of conversion therapy nationwide. It wasn't proposed in the Senate until after he left office.

He left the Republican Party on February 1st, 2021 after the Republican opposition to the Democracy Act written by Sen. Kenneth Allen which was the biggest anti-corruption. He later joined the Reform Party and served under it giving the party the majority in the House. He later rejoined the Republican Party after a rebrand in leadership..

U.S. Senate
He entered office on February 22, 2021, being sworn in by Vice President Trey Cranfield. He proposed the Capitol Punishment Abolition Act twice one time failing in session and the second time failing in committee. He also proposed the 31st Amendment to the Constitution and it failed 1-2 in committee. On March 7th, 2021, He proposed the Capital Punishment Abolition Act which would abolish the Death penalty. After a long debate with Sen. Richards who was attempting to take the bill to the Supreme Court, the bill passed with 6 ayes, 2 nays. On March 13th, 2020, Williams announced he was leaving the Republican Party and joining the Democratic Party. On March 10, 2021 during the State of the Union, President Benjamin Bryant awarded Sen. Charlie Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He was elected Majority Leader on March 31, 2021 and was ultimately elected as President Pro Tempore on April 6, 2021, being re-elected on April19, 2021 fending off a challenge from Sen. Jeanne Shabeen.

Floyd-Taylor Act
Sen. Williams worked with Sen. Kenneth Allen (D-MI) during senate lunch on the Floyd-Taylor Act which would reform the criminal justice system by banning chokeholds, legalizing marijuana, and banning no-knock warrants. The bill was later proposed in the Judiciary committee and passed 2-0. A session was called by President Pro Tempore, Harry Bennett followed by a confirmation hearing for Jeanne Shabeen to be Secretary of State.

The session began with Sen. Allen giving a speech in favor of it invoking the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor who the bill's title is named after. Williams then gave a speech including the names of previous victims of police brutality such as Floyd, Taylor, Tamir Rice, and Eric Gardner then followed by a speech by Sen. Bennett in favor of the bill. Sens. John Richards and Edwin House took to the floor to oppose the legislation on the basis that it legalizes marijuana. Williams and Allen took to the floor to response and then Richards and House responding. It went on for a while until Sen. House began to speak. He went on to hold the floor for 30 minutes and repeated his statements to stay on topic claiming he isn't filibustering but speaking from the heart. It is, to date, the longest filibuster given on the Senate floor.

Harry Bennett took to the floor afterwards to call out his colleges for attempting to filibuster this bill, saying "I am ashamed to be a Republican." The filibuster was widely condemned by members from both parties.

There were two votes on the bill and both failed due to not reaching the 5 vote threshold despite having more aye votes. Sens. Williams and Allen were determined to pass the bill before ending the session, objecting and seconding each other's objections on motions to adjourn by Sen. Richards. They attempted to use the nuclear option to pass the bill but the Vice President broke Senate procedures and didn't hear the point of order. Shortly after 11, more than 2 hours after debate began, Sens. Harper and Underwood arrived at the Senate chamber and the Senate took a vote, with Sens. Allen, Bennett, Harper, Underwood, and Williams voting for it and Sens. Richards and House voting against it. Upon finally passing the bill, Sen. Williams took the floor to thank the senators who voted for the bill but also call out those who took the bill into the night saying "..the fact that it took this long is shameful." In total there were around 2 hours and 15 minutes becoming the most debated bill on the Senate floor to date.

The Equal Rights for the Unborn Act
After the Floyd-Taylor Act passed the Senate, the chamber voted on the Equal Rights for the Unborn Act. Williams voted in favor of it after agreeing to a compromise with President Bryant that he will sign the Floyd-Taylor Act if Congress passes the ERUA. In the end, Congress passed the ERUA and Bryant signed the Floyd-Taylor Act as a result.

Majority Leader of the U.S Senate
After the resignation of Sen. Kenneth Allen, Williams assumed the role of Senate Majority Leader and during his tenure the Senate had 4 sessions in one week and had very high activity. After the nomination of Harry Bennett to Vice President, Williams presided over the hearing and his confirmation vote which eventually passed.

President Pro Tempore of the U.S Senate
Williams was nominated by Sen. Sethyy Bro to be President Pro Tempore after the resignation of Harry Bennett to become Vice President. The vote passed with 5 ayes, 1 nay, and 2 senators not voting.

Season 5 Presidential Election
Williams was a potential candidate for President in Season 5 and on March 24, he began visiting early primary states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. On April 4, Williams announced the formation of an exploratory committee for President saying, "I have been encouraged by many people to run for President..." On April 8, he announced that he would not be a candidate for President in S5. Sen. Harry Bennett announced his candidacy for President and Williams subsequently endorsed him.

On April 11, 2021, Sen. Harry Bennett announced that he would choose Williams to be his running mate to contest the Season 5 Presidential Election. In his speech following the announcement he said, "The obligation of the Vice Presidency is an obligation I am ready to fulfil." The pick came as a shock to some but some expected it when he became the first elected official to endorse his campaign. His pick was an attempt to gain more liberal and Democratic voters especially after a rise in the campaign of Rep. Jamaal Jones yet polling appeared to show that he didn't have as much affect as anticipated. After the Jones-Fitzpatrick Scandal, Democrats who lost trust in Jones began expressing support for Sen. Bennett. Some people endorsed the ticket but only mentioned Williams in their endorsement.

Williams rallied under his liberal policies but explains that common sense reform is needed and that "a Bennett administration would work with whoever cares about advancing the nation forward."

The Bennett-Williams ticket won in the second biggest landslide since Season 1. Vice President Bennett won 412 electoral votes and Republican Jeanne Shabeen won 126 electoral votes. They won 3 out of 4 provinces and won 8 out of 11 House Districts, only losing Districts 6,7 and tied in District 5. They won with 70% of the popular vote and were the first unity ticket elected to the White House. Bennett became the first Independent and youngest president elected in U.S History. Williams became the youngest vice president and the first elected Hispanic vice president and second overall, behind Kenneth Allen who was nominated for Vice President by then President Hillary Cunningham.

Vice Presidency
Following the election of Harry Bennett as U.S President, Charlie Williams became vice president of the United States on April 30, 2021. The administration's main priority was the RVS-21 pandemic and creating a budget. Williams' main priorities were criminal justice reform and immigration reform. He left office on June 18, 2021 after the election of Brett Cawthorn.

Investigation into Justice Benjamin Bryant
On May 1st, 2021, Justice Benjamin Bryant was contacted by Attorney General Kenneth Allen in which he informed him that his Republican party affiliation was a violation of the Democracy Act which was a bill signed by Bryant when he served as President. He choose not to cooperate and attempted to challenge the legislation as unconstitutional for violation of the First Amendment. Three days later, Sen. Lucas Underwood, who was appointed to Williams' old seat, opened a Senate investigation as Senate Judiciary Chair and invited Allen to testify in front of the committee. Late that day, Justice Bryant testified in front of the committee.

Williams released a statement where he called Bryant's actions "corruption and abuse of power and said the process will play out and corruption will be exposed." His statement was released before the Senate investigation concluded which laid more cases against Bryant.

It was later revealed in a report released by Sen. Underwood that Bryant had attempted to blackmail undisclosed members of DES and that he lied about recusing himself from cases brought directly from the Republican side to boost their conservative values with petitions from Tom Bush regarding Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges and that he contacted Republican members to submit the petitions to fit the satisfaction of the party.

The investigation included the following which are charges the committee believes Bryant committed

Abuse of Power - 18 U.S Code § 873 (Blackmail)

Judicial Misconduct - 28 U.S Code § 351 | CANON 3 of the Code of Conduct of Federal Judges

Perjury - 18 U.S Code § 1621

Obstruction of Justice - 18 U.S Code § 1510

RVS-21 Response
Upon news first breaking about the spread of an infectious disease spreading across Central America, President Bennett and Vice President Williams both made statements encouraging people to practice social distance and to wear a mask. Later that day, Bennett enacted a mask mandate which resulted in multiple riots by far right groups calling the order a "massive government overreach." In response, Williams released a statement calling mask wearing "One of the most patriotic things you can do to lower the spread of the virus." He was later chosen by Bennett to be a part of a Retrovirus task force. The administration later released that they have developed a vaccine by Merck & Co. for all individuals above the age of 16.

Budget
He was chosen along with Sens. Henderson, Cooley, and Sturgis to be a part of budget negotiations. After days of getting negotiations started, Bennett rolled out the first budget in U.S History since Benjamin Bryant. After it was released, Williams began actively suspending rules in the Senate and getting bipartisan support on the budget, getting a Democratic Senate sponsor and a Republican House sponsor to fast track the bill in both chambers. On June 2nd, 2021, Bennett signed the Bennett-Williams-Henderson-Cooley Budget of 2021.

Nomination and Confirmation
Williams was nominated for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court after the resignation of Justice Monique Henderson. While Williams was considered a liberal nominee for a conservative Senate, he managed to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously. His nomination was approved by the Senate on September 14, 2021 in a 7-1 vote with Sen. Jakob Goldwater voting no, being sworn in the next day.

Terry v. United States
Tbh

Texas v. United States
Tbh

Electoral History
Tbh