A speaker with an extreme agenda
Mike Johnson, a Donald Trump acolyte and backbencher, who was elected the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, signed a U.S. Supreme Court petition to overturn the 2020 election in which Joe Biden defeated Trump for president.
In December 2020, Johnson and 125 of his colleagues signed an amicus brief in support of contesting the results of the 2020 election.
He also supports a national abortion band, and he is an outspoken critic of gay rights.
Johnson’s win in the secret ballot race for the House Republican Conference’s nominee for speaker followed Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer’s decision to drop out of the race. Johnson is 56, and he succeeds Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whose ouster this month was led by hard-right members of the party.
Johnson was born in Shreveport, Louisana in 1972.
He represents the fourth congressional district with a Shreveport and Bossier City population. The district of 761,461 comprises 58.7 percent Whites and 34.0 percent Blacks.
Johnson reportedly adopted a Black boy as a son either before or after he married, but no one has heard from him, and his image is not among those included in family photographs.