Chief: Chief justice is a separate statewide partisan-elected office (voters elect the chief justice directly, distinct from the eight associate-justice seats)..
Adopted 2022. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Alabama constitution means.
Not well documented
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).
