Opinion of the Justices

To the Members of the Senate

State Capitol

Montgomery, Alabama

Gentlemen:

We are in receipt of Senate Resolution No. 16 requesting an advisory opinion of the Justices relative to pending Senate Bill 88, which would create an additional circuit judgeship for the Tenth Judicial Circuit.

Senate Resolution No. 16 is as follows:

“BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, That we do respectfully request the Honorable Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, or a majority of them, to give this body their written opinions of the important constitutional question which…