The Making of a Supreme Court Justice: The Reclamation of America's Constitutional System of Checks and Balances

This is the revised version of the original January 2019 edition of "The Making of a Supreme Court Justice," with the addition of a new January 2022 Updated Introduction that covers the results of Judge Moroz’s campaign for Justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia and the events that have overcome America since the 2019 edition.

"The Making of a Supreme Court Justice" effectively served as the platform for Judge Hal Moroz's candidacy for Justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia in 2020, when he garnered nearly a half-million votes in his home state while bringing national attention to the problems facing our Judiciary. It laid out his personal beliefs and positions, and the proposition that a justice, or any judge for that matter, should strictly comply with the Constitution as written, both at the state and federal levels.

We no longer have a Constitutional system of checks and balances. Darkness has descended upon the Judiciary, starting in the United States Supreme Court and cascading down to our state courts, affecting even my beloved Georgia Supreme Court, where I have practiced the law with regularity. Our modern Judiciary has strayed from the narrowly defined role given it by the Framers, and has set out on a new progressive course, piloted by activist judges and justices, to divine laws that are anathema to the Constitution. It is a usurpation of the charter established by our Founding Fathers, and an affront to the God-given rights enumerated in our Constitution. In the words of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia in his 2015 Obergefell dissent, "This is a naked judicial claim to legislative—indeed, super-legislative—power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government…A system of government that makes the People subordinate.” We the People must ensure that all who would serve in the Judiciary strictly interpret the Constitution, and not substitute their will for the Law. Our future generations will reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of the choices we now make. Let us decide well, having the knowledge and the wisdom to choose wisely. This is what "The Making of a Supreme Court Justice" is all about.