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[AL State]Senator aims for changes: Proposed constitutional amendment would alter how justices are elected
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| Last Edited | User 490 Apr 24, 2004 12:34am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Birmingham News |
| News Date | Saturday, April 24, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MONTGOMERY -- The Republican-dominated Alabama Supreme Court could see a shuffle in coming years under a proposal from a Democratic senator.
A constitutional amendment, sponsored by Sen. Myron Penn, an attorney from Union Springs, would change the court from nine justices elected in statewide races to a chief justice elected at-large and eight associate justices elected from geographic districts. The district lines would mirror those of the state Board of Education. That group now includes four Democrats and four Republicans.
Penn is selling his amendment, which has cleared a Senate committee and awaits action before the full chamber, as a way to ensure equal geographic representation on a court he describes as too easily dominated by jus tices from metropolitan areas. And, he argues, it would reduce the overall spending on Alabama court races, which are among the costliest judicial contests nationally.
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