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Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and...

There are 11 candidates on the March 5 ballot.

The winner of the special election will serve the remainder of McCarthy’s term, which ends in January 2025.

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled on Dec. 28 that Fong could run to succeed Rep. Kevin McCarthy in Congress.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom set a mid-March special election to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

If a candidate gets a majority of the votes in the primary, they win the special election outright and there will not be a runoff.

Fong, who was McCarthy’s district director for nearly a decade, is noted as the frontrunner.

Fresno County is spread across multiple congressional districts. All but one of them is held by a Republican.

Far-right Congressional candidate David Giglio will join Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s appeal.

Opinion of The Fresno Bee Editorial Board: California’s Election Code is pretty clear on how it works.