by Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector
June 2, 2025

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell announced Monday he is campaigning for the Alabama Attorney General’s Office.

Mitchell, a Republican who served on the Alabama Supreme Court from 2019 until his resignation in May, said in a statement that he is a “proven conservative and a warrior for President Donald J. Trump and the America First agenda” and is running to “stop the lawlessness, restore order, and dismantle Joe Biden’s radical left wing policies.”

“This isn’t just my race – it’s our fight for Alabama’s future. I’ll take on the radical left, advance the Trump agenda, and never stop fighting for our state,” Mitchell said in a statement.

He describes himself as a “law and order conservative with the guts to protect our Constitution” in the campaign launch video.

Mitchell claimed a “tough-on-crime approach to law and order” in his campaign announcement. Mitchell also said he plans to “aggressively pursue mass deportations.” His campaign video stated that Mitchell “will work with President Trump to make Alabama the state criminals and illegals hate most.”

On social issues, Mitchell said he would “defend the sanctity of life” and “fight the woke agenda,” saying that “no matter the cost, I will stand firm to protect the unborn.”

Mitchell in February 2024 wrote the majority opinion ruling that frozen embryos outside the womb are “children,” forcing several in-vitro fertilization (IVF) providers in Alabama to pause services temporarily. Mitchell wrote that there was no exception for frozen embryos under an 1872 law allowing civil lawsuits for the wrongful death of children, or under a 2018 state constitutional amendment that required the state to “ensure the protection of the rights of the unborn child.”

“The upshot here is that the phrase ‘minor child’ means the same thing in the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act as it does in everyday parlance: ‘an unborn or recently born’ individual member of the human species, from fertilization until the age of majority,” Mitchell wrote in the opinion.

Attorney General Steve Marshall, who was appointed in 2017 by former Gov. Robert Bentley and reelected in 2018 and 2022, is term-limited but announced he would run for the U.S. Senate. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a first-term senator, also announced he would run for governor.

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Note: The following A.I. based commentary is not part of the original article, reproduced above, but is offered in the hopes that it will promote greater media literacy and critical thinking, by making any potential bias more visible to the reader –Staff Editor.

Political Bias Rating: Right-Leaning

The content focuses on Jay Mitchell, a Republican and self-described conservative aligned with former President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. It highlights his campaign positions on law and order, immigration enforcement, and opposition to abortion, which are commonly associated with conservative and right-leaning politics in the U.S. The tone is factual and reportorial, but the views expressed by Mitchell and his platform position the content clearly on the right side of the political spectrum.