# Alabama Court of the Judiciary - what do other states do?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-court-of-the-judiciary-what-do-other-states-do/212724
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 12, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-court-of-the-judiciary-what-do-other-states-do/212724 "2003-11-12T00:50:34Z")
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### Author: ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-court-of-the-judiciary-what-do-other-states-do/212724/1 "2003-11-12T00:50:34Z")

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A couple months ago Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore defied a federal court order to remove the ten commandments monument from the rotunda of the building housing the Supreme Court. He was promptly suspended from his post pending trial by the [Alabama Court of the Judiciary](http://www.judicial.state.al.us/judiciary.cfm).

I’m familiar with the concept that justices may be removed through impeachment by the state legislature, but I hadn’t heard of the Court of the Judiciary before this.

Is this an unusual government organ, or do other states (or even the federal govt) have similar setups?