It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.
I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.