As Senator, Cindy will fight for and vote to confirm pro-life judges who will interpret the law as written, and not legislate from the bench.
Vote to confirm pro-life judges who interpret the law as written rather than legislate from the bench.
Occurrences
supporting conservative judges appointed by President Trump are some of the important issues I'm working on.
Evidence
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Hyde-Smith's campaign page states that she is pro-life and pledges to vote to confirm pro-life judges who interpret law as written rather than legislate from the bench.
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The Senate roll call records confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Hyde-Smith listed as voting Yea.
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The Senate roll call records confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Hyde-Smith listed as voting Yea.
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Hyde-Smith said after voting for Barrett that Barrett would be a conservative jurist committed to interpreting the law and not legislating from the bench.
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The Dobbs opinion states that Roe and Casey were overruled and lists Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett as joining Justice Alito's opinion for the Court.
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The Senate confirmed Kathleen S. Lane, of Montana, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Montana on June 2, 2026 (Vote 132), and the vote record lists Hyde-Smith (R-MS) as Yea.
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The Senate confirmed Jeffrey M. Kuhlman, of Kansas, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Kansas on June 2, 2026 (Vote 134), and the vote record lists Hyde-Smith (R-MS) as Yea.
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Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Benjamin M. Flowers, of Ohio, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit). Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed. Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Yea.
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Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Michael C. Martin, of Michigan, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan). Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed. Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Yea.
Assessments
Hyde-Smith promised to vote to confirm pro-life, textualist/originalist judges. As a sitting U.S. senator, she directly cast yea votes confirming Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and additional yea votes for federal judicial nominees during later Senate service. Her public statement on Barrett also tied the vote to the promised judicial philosophy of interpreting law rather than legislating from the bench. Because the core promised action was voting on confirmations and she did so while in the relevant federal office, this counts as delivered in the same term.
Cindy Hyde-Smith publicly pledged to vote to confirm pro-life judges who interpret the law as written, and the evidence shows she cast confirmation votes for multiple such nominees during her Senate service, including Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and later district judges. That is direct fulfillment of the promised voting behavior while in office.
Hyde-Smith promised, as a federal Senate candidate, to vote to confirm pro-life judges who interpret the law as written. The record shows she voted yea on Supreme Court confirmations for Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 while serving in the Senate, and her Barrett statement explicitly framed the vote in terms of conservative judicial interpretation and not legislating from the bench. Later participation by Kavanaugh and Barrett in Dobbs further supports the pro-life component, but the promised action was the confirmation vote itself, which occurred during her same Senate term.
Hyde-Smith promised to vote for pro-life judges who interpret the law as written. The evidence shows she voted Yea to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020, and her Barrett statement explicitly framed the vote around conservative judicial interpretation rather than legislating from the bench. Later participation by those justices in Dobbs further supports that the confirmations aligned with the pro-life component, but the promised action was fulfilled when she cast the confirmation votes.