Yes, Dobbs properly returned the issue of abortion to state control. Abortion is not a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution. But the right to life is mentioned several times.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

Strongly Agree

While the U.S. Constitution guarantees our religious freedom, it seems it is constantly under attack, and we must be vigilant in protecting that freedom and standing against every infringement that whittles it away.

Strongly Agree

I believe the three branches are co-equal.

Law and Constitution

Justice Antonin Scalia

No, that language is not in the U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment does prohibit government establishment of religion, but it also protects the Free Exercise of religion. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently held in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the "endorsement test" of Lemon v. Kurtzman interpreted the Establishment Clause far too broadly and wrongly removed God from the public square in situations that the Founders never intended. With Kennedy, the right to "free exercise" of one's religion has been restored.

Courts should be guided by Kennedy v. Bremerton School District and other cases that are in "accor[d ] with history and faithfully reflec[t] the understanding of the Founding Fathers.”

I share Justice Scalia's observation: "Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in [this case] is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves."

No

Strongly Agree

As Justice Kavanaugh wrote in Bostock, "Under the Constitution’s separation of powers, our role as judges is to interpret and follow the law as written, regardless of whether we like the result. ...Our role is not to make or amend the law." Judicially activist decisions must defer to the legislative text, so that we do not cease to be a government of laws.

I tend to agree with Justice Thomas that we must not elevate "demonstrably erroneous decisions...over the text of the Constitution, and we should adhere to "the correct, original meaning of the laws [the courts] are charged with applying." Thomas explained, "The judicial task is modest: We interpret and apply written law to the facts of particular cases." A "demonstrably incorrect judicial decision...is tantamount to making law, and adhering to it...perpetuates a usurpation of the legislative power."

Never

No

Fortitude to apply the law as written, giving the law its public meaning at the time of enactment, even if it results in an unfavorable outcome. Lawmaking and law-amending is for the people's elected representatives in the legislature, and judges must stand against the usurpation of that legislative authority.

I will keep an open mind in all cases, regardless of my personal feelings or beliefs, considering how the arguments of the parties and their counsel comport with the law as written. I will avoid circumstances that cause any party to question my impartiality.

Double Oak Community Church in Birmingham, AL

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I have voted in every Republican primary, every special election, and every general election since I was 18 years old.

No

No

I am a Scalia-style originalist.

I am a Christian. I believe we are all sinners, and we are saved by the grace of God through the death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ, if we believe and accept that grace. Because we are saved by grace, we should seek to live according to the example of Christ, always growing in our faith.

Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Homeschooling, private school, and charter schools are viable alternatives to public education. As an attorney, I represented the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in defending religious schools from being discriminatorily excluded from the state's first voucher program. Parents have a right to be notified/involved if a child's sexual "identity" ever becomes an issue.

Strongly Disagree

As Chief Justice, it will be my duty to apply the law as written and originally understood. There is nothing in Alabama law or the U.S. Constitution that makes "gender identity" a constitutionally protected class, and no judge should ever legislate that from the bench.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23. We can be saved from death by faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God, who was nailed to a cross for our sins.

Strongly Disagree