SB11 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Dick Brewbaker

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Judicial Inquiry Commission and Court of the Judiciary, abolished, const. amend.

Description

Under Article VI, Sections 156, 157, and 158 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, the Judicial Inquiry Commission is created to investigate and receive or initiate complaints relating to any judge in the state and the Court of the Judiciary is created to hear complaints filed by the Judicial Inquiry Commission.

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to abolish the Judicial Inquiry Commission and the Court of the Judiciary.

Under Article VI, Section 159 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, a judge is disqualified from acting as judge when a complaint has been filed against him or her by the Judicial Inquiry Commission with the Court of the Judiciary.

This bill would propose an amendment to Section 159 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to delete the references to the Judicial Inquiry Commission and the Court of the Judiciary.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments