John Washington III Says Judges Must Put the Constitution and the People First
John Washington III raised a conflict-of-interest concern about state judges, saying they are bound by the U.S. Constitution and asking why people so often feel their constitutional rights do not get a fair look in court.
John Washington III is asking whether judges put the Constitution first. In a statement on the courts, the 2028 presidential candidate raised what he called a conflict of interest: state judges are bound by the U.S. Constitution, and in Texas, he wrote, they also swear to uphold the state constitution — but too often, he argued, people feel the constitution that should come first gets overlooked.
"I'm asking why people walk into court again and again and feel their constitutional rights don't get a fair look," John Washington III wrote. He asked why outcomes can feel pre-decided, and why loyalty to an office seems to matter more than loyalty to the people. "They ask for your vote, then serve their office instead of the people," he wrote.
"That's not justice. That's not acceptable," John Washington III wrote. The people, he argued, deserve judges who put the constitution and the people first. His statement did not name a specific case or court; it posed the question to the system as a whole, as part of a series of public statements in which John Washington III has questioned how American institutions serve the people they are meant to serve.
