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Supreme Court of Florida
John D. Couriel
Associate Justice, Florida Supreme Court
Nonpartisan
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
/ 100
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Raw: 2 of 2 dynamic max
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✝ God First
4/ 60
🇺🇸 America First
0/ 40
National Rank
#5,061 of 8,966 · bottom 43.6% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Official Profile
Education: Harvard University (BA), Harvard Law School (JD)
Background: Appointed to the Florida Supreme Court May 2020 by Gov. DeSantis; former federal prosecutor (S.D. Fla.). Federalist Society member; self-described textualist/originalist. Retained Nov 2022 with 63.7%; next retention 2028. Unanimously elected by his colleagues as the court's next Chief Justice, term beginning July 1, 2026.
Next Election Year: 2028
Evidence-finalized 2026-06: judicial record only. Joined the 6-1 majority in Planned Parenthood v. State of Florida (SC2022-1050, Apr 1 2024) holding the FL Constitution's privacy clause does NOT protect abortion, upholding the 15-week/6-week ban. Also joined the 4-3 majority that allowed the Amendment 4 abortion-rights initiative onto the 2024 ballot (a ballot-access/textualist ruling, NOT a pro-abortion position). Joined the 5-1 majority (July 2025) upholding the DeSantis-backed congressional map. Federalist Society member; textualist. No personal/judicial statement found affirming personhood-at-conception, on marriage/sexuality, religious liberty, or the Second Amendment - those cells null (constitutional rulings are not read as personhood/policy affirmations).
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Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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Voted with the 6-1 majority in Planned Parenthood of SW & Central Florida v. State of Florida (April 2024), ruling that the Florida Privacy Clause does not protect abortion access and allowing the 6-week heartbeat ban to take effect. DeSantis appointed him alongside Justice Grosshans in 2020 to restore originalist constitutional interpretation to the court.
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Candidate has voted for or actively advocates abortion abolition (not merely restrictions)
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Candidate opposes embryonic stem-cell research, IVF embryo discard, and chimeric experimentation
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Candidate opposes euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and quality-of-life rationing
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Candidate has never accepted Planned Parenthood, NARAL, EMILY's List, or abortion-industry PAC funding
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
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Candidate opposes all forms of same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in law
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Candidate rejects transgender ideology and affirms biological sex (male/female) as immutable and God-given
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Candidate supports no-fault divorce reform and policies that strengthen the marriage covenant
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Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in public policy, schools, military, and corporate-government partnerships
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Candidate supports universal school choice, homeschool freedom, and opposes compulsory public-school attendance
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Candidate supports parental notification and consent on all medical, mental-health, and gender-related interventions for minors
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Candidate opposes CRT, SOGI, "comprehensive sex ed," and gender-ideology curricula in K-12 public schools
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Candidate supports age-verification on pornographic content and criminal penalties for sexualized content marketed to minors
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Candidate supports faith-based adoption/foster agencies and opposes placement of children with same-sex couples
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Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
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Candidate supports conscience exemptions for Christian medical professionals, business owners, adoption agencies, and educators
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Candidate opposes compelled speech against Christian conviction (pronoun mandates, gospel-proclamation hate-speech laws)
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Candidate supports public-square Christian symbols, prayer in public bodies, and Sabbath/Sunday closure protections
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Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays, curricula, or holidays in public institutions
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Candidate opposes a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and supports cash and decentralized crypto as legal tender
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Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
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Candidate opposes deficit spending and supports a balanced-budget constitutional amendment
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Candidate supports usury limits, anti-debt-slavery protections, and tithe-friendly tax structures
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Candidate opposes WEF/ESG/Davos economic capture and supports anti-trust action against monopolistic financial cartels
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Candidate supports hand-counted paper ballots and opposes electronic voting machines
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Candidate supports photo voter ID with citizenship verification
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Candidate supports single-day in-person voting with absentee only for verified medical/military exceptions
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Candidate opposes mass mail-in voting, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting
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Candidate opposes private election funding ("Zuckerbucks") and foreign-government election interference
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Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
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Candidate supports mandatory deportation of all illegal aliens, including those who entered as minors
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Candidate opposes sanctuary city/state policies and supports federal preemption against them
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Candidate supports mandatory E-Verify for all employment and benefit eligibility
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Candidate opposes birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, tourist births, and opposes foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
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Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
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Candidate opposes red-flag laws, magazine limits, "assault weapons" bans, and gun registries
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Candidate supports repeal of the National Firearms Act (NFA), Gun Control Act (GCA), and other federal gun regulations
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Candidate supports castle doctrine and stand-your-ground laws with full civil immunity for lawful defense
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Candidate opposes ATF overreach, citizen disarmament initiatives, and U.N. small-arms treaty participation
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Candidate supports Article I congressional war-powers requirement before any U.S. military action
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Candidate supports immediate withdrawal from forever wars and repeal of standing AUMFs
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Candidate opposes foreign aid to nations hostile to U.S. interests or actively persecuting Christians
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Candidate has never accepted donations from foreign-backed lobbies (e.g., AIPAC) or foreign-linked PACs
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Candidate opposes U.S. participation in WHO, U.N. governance overreach, NATO expansion, and supranational governance
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Candidate opposes pharmaceutical mandates of any kind (COVID, childhood, employer-required) and supports informed consent
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Candidate supports repeal of pharma liability shields (1986 NCVIA, PREP Act) and restoration of tort accountability
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Candidate opposes Big Ag consolidation (Bayer/Monsanto/Cargill) and supports anti-trust action against agricultural cartels
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Candidate supports raw-milk freedom, small-farm protections, and opposes USDA / EPA overreach against family farms
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Candidate supports defense-contractor accountability, completion of Pentagon audits, and ending revolving-door appointments
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- [1]Joined the majority holding the FL privacy clause doesn't protect abortion, but made no personal statement affirming personhood-at-conception; a constitutional ruling is not a personhood affirmation - null, not inferred. Unclassified
Joined the majority holding the FL privacy clause doesn't protect abortion, but made no personal statement affirming personhood-at-conception; a constitutional ruling is not a personhood affirmation - null, not inferred.
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