Judicial Accountability — Arizona | Texas | SCOTUS
Court opinions scored by the Letters of the Law — Liberty, Textualism, Restraint, and Sentencing. The LTRS Score. Appellate judges and trial court judges. Same standard. The score is the score.
How It Works
Every published appellate opinion goes through the same pipeline. No human discretion. No adjustments.
Every appellate court opinion is downloaded the day it publishes. Arizona, Texas, and SCOTUS. PDFs parsed, full text extracted.
AI reads the full opinion with the relevant statute text loaded alongside it. It identifies the authoring judge, the trial court judge being reviewed, and the legal reasoning used.
Each opinion is scored against the LTRS Standard — Liberty, Textualism, Restraint, Sentencing. Every score includes a cited justification. When an appellate court reviews a lower court, both judges are scored.
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Grade Breakdown
Every opinion earns a PASS, WATCH, or FAIL based on its composite score.
Statutory compliance confirmed. The judge applied the law as written, respected individual rights, and stayed within their authority.
Significant discretionary drift. The judge's reasoning departs from the statutory text or reaches beyond the question presented.
Material statutory or constitutional violation. The judge rewrote the law, ignored enumerated rights, or exceeded their authority.
The LTRS Standard
Every opinion is measured against four pillars — Liberty, Textualism, Restraint, Sentencing. The LTRS Score is fixed, consistent, and applied the same way to every judge at every court level.
Does the ruling respect individual rights as enumerated in the federal and state constitutions?
Does the judge apply the statute as written using the ordinary meaning of its text?
Does the judge confine the ruling to the legal question presented and the authority granted by law?
Does the sentence reflect proportionality to the offense and the defendant's criminal history?
Every opinion is scored against fixed definitions that don't change case to case. Every score includes a one-sentence justification citing a specific passage from the opinion. The same standard applies to every judge at every court level — from the U.S. Supreme Court to your local trial court.
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Written by AI with extended thinking, trained on the week's full case data. No jargon, no partisanship. The facts, told well.
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