United States Political Leadership
Who holds power in the United States: the President, Vice President and Cabinet; the nine Supreme Court justices; every state governor; all 100 US senators; and House leadership, with party balance and, where it applies, the Metro Power score of the places they represent.
Election history
US elections →
Presidential and congressional elections: the electoral maps, the margins, the outcomes.
Forecast
US forecast model →
Weighted polling averages and thousands of simulations for the next cycle.
Time machine
A day in American history →
Who was President, Vice President, and the House balance on any date back to 1789.
The Organic Laws of the United States
Every edition of the United States Code opens with four documents, not one. They are printed together as the Organic Laws, and the Constitution is the last of them rather than the whole of them.
The four documents1776 to 1787
Declaration of Independence
1776Stated the principles the new country claimed for itself: consent of the governed, and a right to alter a government that withholds it.
foundational
Articles of Confederation
1777The first national compact. Drafted 1777, in force 1781, and abandoned in 1789 for want of a workable federal power.
superseded
Northwest Ordinance
1787Governed the Northwest Territory and set the terms on which new states could join as equals rather than as possessions.
foundational
Constitution of the United States
1787Adopted 1787, in force 1789, amended 27 times in 16 separate acts. The oldest national constitution still in force anywhere.
in force
Placed against the rest of the world: the oldest national constitution still in force, shorter than all but 27 of the 191 codified constitutions on record, and amended at 0.7 events per decade, which is roughly a tenth of Brazil's rate. Compare it with every other country's →
16 amendment events since 1789, the last of them in 1992, across 236 years under a single constitution.
Executive Branch
President
Donald Trump
Republican · since 2025
Vice President
JD Vance
Republican · since 2025
The Cabinet
Supreme Court
The nine justices, chief justice first, then by seniority. The judiciary has no party labels; each justice is shown with the president who appointed them.
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Since 2005 · appointed by George W. Bush · b. 1955
Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas
Since 1991 · appointed by George H. W. Bush · b. 1948
Associate Justice
Samuel Alito
Since 2006 · appointed by George W. Bush · b. 1950
Associate Justice
Sonia Sotomayor
Since 2009 · appointed by Barack Obama · b. 1954
Associate Justice
Elena Kagan
Since 2010 · appointed by Barack Obama · b. 1960
Associate Justice
Neil Gorsuch
Since 2017 · appointed by Donald Trump · b. 1967
Associate Justice
Brett Kavanaugh
Since 2018 · appointed by Donald Trump · b. 1965
Associate Justice
Amy Coney Barrett
Since 2020 · appointed by Donald Trump · b. 1972
Associate Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Since 2022 · appointed by Joe Biden · b. 1970
116 people have served on the Court since 1789. See the bench on any date →
Governors
50 states · 26 Republican · 24 Democratic. Metro score is the population-weighted sum of the state’s metros (cross-state metros split by population share).
US Territories
United States Senate
Independents caucus with the Democrats
Each senator’s Metro score is the state’s population-weighted metro score divided by two, since a state’s two senators share its representation.
House of Representatives
435 seats; 4 vacant in mid-2026 (Gonzales R-TX, Swalwell D-CA, Cherfilus-McCormick D-FL, Scott D-GA). Kevin Kiley (CA) sits as an Independent since March 2026. Republicans hold the majority. Source: 119th Congress (Wikipedia), as of June 2026.