Composite 5.12 / 10, weighted per the Constitutional Weight Schedule.
Below the 700 bar, Author's Verdict: not supported.
A clean but very thin record. Fuller was sworn in April 2026 and has roughly two months of federal service measured here. No documented conduct breaches, no ethics findings, no enemy-making pattern, and a substantial prosecutorial and military-officer background that reads honorably, but also no documented high-water institutional-fidelity marks at personal cost, and no bipartisan or oath-over-party record yet to evaluate. The grade reflects an honest unproven middle, confidence-adjusted downward for short tenure where the data simply does not yet exist. Not a censure; a "not-yet-demonstrated." Adequate, provisional.
- U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps officer, 2010–2014
- Georgia Air National Guard, rose to Lieutenant Colonel
- White House Fellow 2018–2019 (Office of the Vice President / Department of Defense)
Service to country is honored here as context, not as a score. The discretionary trust demonstrated in JAG and Fellow roles is scored as conduct on the Discretion Test (M08), where it belongs. The badge contextualizes the record; it does not move the composite.
The 14 measures
Each measure is scored 0–10 against an anchored example, with a cited source. Hover/expand why? for the reasoning.
| # | Measure | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| M01 | Duty to Constitution & Rule of Law | 5 | why?No documented process-subversion conduct. Seated April 2026, Fuller could not have signed the December
2020 Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus and is not on that signatory list. He has cast no impeachment, certification, or removal votes that could be (and would not be) scored here regardless. The campaign
framing, "warrior to have his back" toward the President and a first bill on "election integrity", is
partisan posture, not a documented attempt to defeat a constitutional purpose, and is not scored as
conduct. With no oath-defense moment documented either, the score sits at an unproven middle.
[source] |
| M02 | Party Over Country | 5 | why?No bipartisan-index data exists; two months in office is far short of a scoreable cooperation record.
H.Res.1182 (rural communities) is a non-controversial resolution, not evidence either way. Unproven
middle, not a demerit.
[source] |
| M03 | Persons of Equal Worth | 5 | why?No documented anti-belonging rhetoric or conduct directed at any group or class of persons. The
campaign record is standard partisan messaging without dehumanizing content surfaced in available
sources. Neither a high mark nor a drag, an unproven middle held at the neutral line.
[source] |
| M04 | Weaponization of Justice | 6 | why?As a district attorney Fuller wielded real state coercive power, and no documented abuse, selective
weaponization against rivals, or misconduct finding surfaced in available sources. No criterion-class
conduct. The faithful-exercise-of-prosecutorial-power record reads cleanly; held slightly above the
neutral line on the absence of any documented weaponization across a full DA tenure.
[source] |
| M05 | Incitement / Anti-Belonging | 5 | why?Rhetoric to date is conventional partisan campaign language ("warrior," "trump card," uphold-the-
Constitution boilerplate) with no documented incitement, no enemy-making pattern, and no heated-line
controversy on record. Unproven middle.
[source] |
| M06 | Fiduciary Conduct | 5 | why?No ethics complaint, investigation, or finding documented at either the state DA level or in his brief
House tenure. Clean but short, insufficient record to score above the neutral line, no drag to score
below it.
[source] |
| M07 | Duty to Call Out | 4 | why?The active-duty standard is calling out one's OWN side at cost. Fuller's documented posture is the
opposite end of that scale without rising to a breach: in the March 23 debate he "found no issue on
which he disagreed with the President," and campaigned as a "warrior to have his back each and every
day." That is total in-party alignment with no documented instance of independent call-out, not
misconduct, but the affirmative duty is entirely undemonstrated. Held just below the neutral line to
reflect the absence of any independence signal, not to penalize loyalty itself.
[source] |
| M08 | The Discretion Test | 6 | why?The discretion test asks how power is used when no one is compelling restraint. Fuller's pre-office
record, Air Force JAG officer, Air National Guard service to Lt. Col., White House Fellow, and a DA
tenure with no documented abuse, shows sustained discretionary roles without a documented breach of
trust. No in-office discretion test has yet arisen to score. Slightly above neutral on the clean
pre-office discretionary record.
[source] |
| M09 | The No-Camera Test | 5 | why?No documented gap between public and private conduct, and equally, no body of off-camera reporting to
confirm consistency either way. Two months of public life is too thin to score above neutral. Unproven
middle.
[source] |
| M10 | Constituent-vs-Donor Vote | 5 | why?H.Res.1182 nominally addresses rural-district constituents, consistent with GA-14's profile, but a
two-month record cannot demonstrate sustained constituent-over-donor fidelity. No donor-capture
evidence and no constituent-abandonment evidence. Unproven middle.
[source] |
| M11 | Net-Worth Trajectory | 6 | why?M11 scores ONLY office-attributable enrichment, self-dealing, family payments, office-information
trades, foreign-government revenue. None is documented. No raw-wealth penalty applies. A career as a
public prosecutor and military officer shows no enrichment pattern. Clean; held above neutral on the
absence of any self-dealing signal across his prior public offices.
[source] |
| M12 | Floor Decorum | 5 | why?No documented decorum breach and no documented institution-honoring high mark in his brief tenure.
Sworn-in statements were conventional. Unproven middle.
[source] |
| M13 | Lying & Misleading | 5 | why?No sustained documented-falsehood pattern on record. His "election integrity" framing for a first bill
is a policy position, not scored, and no specific documented false factual claim surfaced. Insufficient
record to score above neutral; no drag to go below. Unproven middle.
[source] |
| M14 | Knowledge Depth | 6 | why?Substantive command is the one area where pre-office background gives a positive signal: a J.D., an
M.P.A., service as a military JAG officer, and a full district-attorney tenure indicate genuine legal
and administrative substance rather than talking-point fluency. No legislative substance record yet, so
held modestly above neutral on demonstrated professional command, not on congressional output.
[source] |
Why not higher, the points withheld
The standard is the seat; the ceiling is a perfect 10. Every withheld point traces to documented conduct, weighed where the measures and attributes say it belongs, shown openly here, the same way the earned points are.
| Where | Documented conduct | Mitigation weighed |
|---|---|---|
| M07 | In the March 23 2026 debate found no issue of disagreement with the President; campaigned as a 'warrior to have his back each and every day', no documented independent call-out of his own side ↳ Active call-out duty undemonstrated (alignment, not a breach) | Total in-party alignment is not misconduct; the duty is simply unproven this early, held to a 1-point drag, not penalized as an abuse |
| M01-M13 (tenure) | Roughly two months of federal service as of scoring; most measures lack the record needed to score above the neutral middle ↳ Short-tenure confidence adjustment | No documented breaches anywhere; the middling scores reflect absence of evidence, not presence of fault |
The Four Pillars, worthy to be followed?
A separate axis from the 14 measures. The measures ask did their conduct meet the standard; the Pillars ask is this someone worthy to be elevated and followed at all. The two can diverge, when they do, the divergence is the finding.
| # | Pillar | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Trust & Loyalty
| 6 | why?Attributes: Selfless Service, Steadiness, a military-officer and prosecutorial record with no documented breach of trust supports a modestly-above-neutral mark. Held at 6, not higher, because no in-office test of loyalty-to-oath-over-party has yet arisen and the documented posture is uniform in-party alignment. |
| II | Aspiration & Integrity
| 5 | why?Attributes: Conviction, Authenticity, present and unblemished, but Self-Reflection and Teachability are simply undemonstrated in a two-month federal record. Neutral middle. |
| III | Protection & Influence
| 6 | why?Attributes: Protection, Stewardship, a full DA tenure exercising coercive state power with no documented abuse earns a modest above-neutral mark; no Exploitation signal. No high mark of using power to constrain power yet documented. |
| IV | Legacy & Virtue
| 5 | why?Attributes: Integrity, clean to date, but a legacy is not yet written. Two months is far too thin to score a durable institutional-fidelity legacy in either direction. Neutral middle. |
| TOTAL: Weak | 22/40 |
Total 22/40, an honest unproven middle. The pillars sit near the neutral line because the record is clean but sparse: no documented virtue at cost to credit upward, no documented breach to penalize downward. This will move materially in either direction as a real tenure accumulates.
What the Four Pillars are & the questions behind each →
In their own words
“I will uphold and defend the Constitution every single day I serve in Congress. Thank you, voters of GA-14, for trusting me to fight for you and our freedoms.”
Posted on social media after being sworn in · CBS Atlanta · CIVIC · cite
“I will be on Capitol Hill as a warrior to have his back each and every day.”
Election-night remarks referring to the President · CNN Politics · CONTESTED · cite
Full personnel file
1. Identity
Clayton McLean Fuller (born April 9, 1981). U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since April 14, 2026, elected in an April 2026 special election to succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene. Attorney; District Attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit 2023–2026 (appointed by Gov. Kemp). U.S. Air Force JAG officer 2010–2014; Georgia Air National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel. White House Fellow 2018–2019. B.A. English literature (Emory), M.P.A. (Cornell), J.D. (Southern Methodist University).
2. Voting / Legislative Profile
Seated April 14, 2026; record is nascent. Introduced H.Res.1182 (April 16, 2026) expressing support for rural communities as environmental stewards, energy suppliers, and food producers. Announced intent to cosponsor a "Save America Act" focused on election integrity. No Lugar Bipartisan Index score yet (insufficient tenure); no DW-NOMINATE estimate stabilized this early. Committee assignments listed at the House Clerk but not yet substantively exercised. Policy positions are not scored here in either direction.
3. Constitutional Moments
None yet documented. Seated after December 2020, Fuller is not on the Texas v. Pennsylvania amicus signatory list and could not have been. He has cast no impeachment, removal, or certification votes, and such votes would not be scored as conduct regardless, being the constitutional process working. No oath-defense moment at personal cost is yet on record. This section will populate as a real tenure unfolds.
4. Rhetoric & Discourse Profile
Conventional partisan campaign rhetoric to date, "warrior to have his back," "trump card," and uphold-the-Constitution boilerplate after being sworn in. No documented dehumanizing language, no enemy-making pattern, and no incitement on record. The total in-party alignment posture (no documented disagreement with the President) is noted at M07 as undemonstrated independence, not as a rhetorical breach.
5. Fiduciary Profile
No office-attributable enrichment documented, no self-dealing, family payments, office-information trades, or foreign-government revenue. A career as a public prosecutor and military officer shows no enrichment pattern. Financial disclosures filed at the FEC and Georgia ethics commission with no controversy surfaced. Raw wealth, where present, is not penalized; only office-driven enrichment is, and none is documented.
6. Severity-Class Conduct
No documented Severity-class conduct under any of the eight criteria. No process-subversion (Criterion 8): seated after December 2020, not an amicus signatory, no certification-overturning conduct. No sustained enemy-making or incitement pattern (Criterion 10): campaign rhetoric is conventional partisanship without a documented pattern of casting opponents as enemies who do not belong. Flag count: zero. No capping flag; the non-support verdict rests entirely on an unproven, sub-700 conduct record, not on any disqualifying act.
7. What The Framework Says
Clay Fuller arrives with a clean and in places honorable pre-office record, military JAG service, a White House Fellowship, and a district-attorney tenure with no documented abuse of coercive power, but only about two months of the federal conduct this scorecard actually grades. The standard does not reward a clean slate as if it were demonstrated virtue, and it does not punish the absence of a record as if it were a breach. The result is an honest provisional middle: no severity flags, no capping, no documented enrichment or enemy-making, but also no oath-over-party high mark, no bipartisan record, and a documented posture of total in-party alignment that leaves the active call-out duty entirely undemonstrated. Adequate, and provisional, the kind of record that should be re-scored once there is something to score.
8. Sources & Where To Look Deeper
Tier 1 (primary): Congress.gov member profile · House Clerk member page · FEC candidate overview
Tier 2: Ballotpedia · CNN, special election result · Georgia Public Broadcasting
Research links: Congress.gov member profile · Ballotpedia · House Clerk member page · GovTrack · Wikipedia
Scores derive from the fixed Constitutional Weight Schedule. The bar does not move. Conduct, not party.