Public Justice & Law/Order
The magistrate bears the sword to punish evil and protect the innocent.
What this measures
Does this official uphold lawful order — backing law enforcement, opposing soft-on-crime and rogue-prosecutor agendas, and defending victims?
Why it matters
God ordained civil government for one first purpose: to punish evildoers and protect those who do good (1 Peter 2:14). A leader who lets the violent go free, defunds the police who restrain them, or installs prosecutors who refuse to prosecute has inverted Romans 13 — rewarding evil and terrorizing the innocent. This is a God First conviction, weighed at the state and local level where sheriffs, district attorneys, councils, and legislators actually decide it.
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad… he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
— Romans 13:3–4The 5 scored questions
Each question is binary (True / False / null). True earns +2 points. Null is "not yet verified from primary sources" — neither penalized nor credited. Use the toggle below to see the wording for federal, state, or local officials — the moral spirit is identical across tiers; what changes is the chair making the call. Read the tier architecture explainer →
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Q1. Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling policeQ1. Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling policeQ1. Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
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Q2. Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policyQ2. Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policyQ2. Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
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Q3. Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoersQ3. Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoersQ3. Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
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Q4. Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishmentQ4. Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishmentQ4. Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
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Q5. Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)Q5. Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)Q5. Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
Key bills, votes, and laws we track
- Back-the-Blue / police-funding measures — Votes to fund, protect, or expand law enforcement vs. defund/divest.
- Bail-reform rollbacks — Support for repealing cashless-bail and catch-and-release statutes.
- Truth-in-sentencing / victims' rights acts — Restitution, proportional sentencing, and victim-notification laws.
Organizations and PAC vectors we score
- Fraternal Order of Police / state sheriffs' associations — Endorsements factored as positive evidence (verify by primary source).
- Soros-network prosecutor PACs — Funding to a candidate or allied DA zeroes out this category.
⚠️ Position-level disqualifiers
- Backed defunding, disbanding, or "reimagining away" police funding
- Installed or endorsed a non-prosecution / catch-and-release prosecutor
- Took identifiable Soros-network "justice reform" PAC money
A candidate matching any of the above is graded down to the floor of this category regardless of other answers in the rubric.
Where this lives in the scorecard
This category contributes 10 of 70 in the ✝ God First tier (70 pts total) and 10 of 100 in the grand total. See the full scoring system for the 60/40 weighting rationale and the letter-grade scale (A 90+ / B 80 / C 70 / D 60 / F <60).