Kerry Morris

Kerry Morris is an attorney from Albuquerque. He previously served as a prosecutor for the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office

From His Campaign Website:

• "Voters have a tremendous opportunity in 2022 to elect two candidates, who are committed to upholding the Constitution, to the New Mexico Supreme Court and two to the New Mexico Court of Appeals. If we elect these four Constitutionalist candidates, we will have four conservative voices on the most important courts in our state. Imagine what that means! Think of all the issues that may come before the courts that need these Constitutionalist voices."
  
• In his "Why I'm running" section, Morris said, "We are living in a world, in which the mediocre are in charge and the talented, the doers, are despised. A society that values so called equity over equality, a society that would give lifesaving medicine not on the basis of need or science but on the basis of skin color. A society in which prosecutors will not prosecute criminals and judges let dangerous criminals roam free without bail. We conservative thinkers have an opportunity to change these things, but we are up against a powerful, committed opposition who are well funded and have the support of the media, most major corporations, and a host of others. We should not underestimate them and the power of George Soros and Zucker Bucks to control the elections in New Mexico. We must be committed to working together to present a united front against these forces. I’m running with three other statewide candidates for the NM Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. These courts have the power and the opportunity to dictate that judges impose bail on dangerous criminals, and to redefine how many of the criminal laws are applied. But we need your help to get elected in November. Please help us today."

Morris responded to iVoterGuide's 2020 questionnaire.

Info from Other Sources:

• Morris told Ballotpedia in 2020 that he was running for Supreme Court office because he saw himself as a problem solver, first, a peacemaker between parties??, and a trial lawyer last. Said he wanted to bring his experience to serve on the Supreme Court to benefit the state. Said in Question 3 that he would know he succeeded as justice on the court because people would not longer see the Court as political and the judges as "politicians in robes." Said in response to Question 4 that he was running to place the law before politics which meant 1) a commitment to putting aside his personal political views and beliefs when hearing cases 2) disregarding the political views and expressed beliefs of the parties in the case before him and 3) "applying the law as written using the original meaning and context of the words used in the Constitution and the laws that are duly enacted by the legislature at the time they were drafted. By this, I mean that I am committed to not legislating from the bench. I will not allow the New Mexico Supreme Court to act as a mini legislature, writing and rewriting the laws of our state instead of the peoples' duly elected representatives."
  
• He told the Albuquerque Journal that "I know what it means when a court decision is made based on the judges’ personal or political views rather than the law. e.g. $5,000 fine for violating the governor’s closure order, rather than the statute that limits the fine to $100. If elected, as a justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, I will be committed to always putting the law before politics. I bring a commitment to follow the law as written, based on the original meaning of the words used by the legislature when the law was duly enacted, thereby bringing a consistent application of the law to the wide variety of cases that come before the court."