Impeachment in Alabama
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Impeachment in Alabama

The constitution of the U.S. state of Alabama grants its legislature the ability to impeach and remove certain officials. An impeachment vote in the Alabama House of Representatives is followed by an impeachment trial in the Alabama Senate through which an official can be removed from office if convicted.

There are officials that may be removed from office for similar reasons by court order instead of impeachment.

The grounds for impeachment specified in the state's constitution are:

Willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquors or narcotics to such an extent, in view of the dignity of the office and importance of its duties, as unfits the officer for the discharge of such duties for any offense involving moral turpitude while in office, or committed under color thereof, or connected therewith.

Additionally, the constitution states that "dissatisfaction with the ruling of a judge or justice shall not be a ground upon which impeachment...may proceed." The constitution also states that for judges and justices,

A finding of lack of probable cause or a termination of proceeding without a finding of wrongdoing by either the Judicial Inquiry Commission or Court of the Judiciary shall constitute a complete defense to proceedings of impeachment...and shall bar all further proceedings of impeachment as to the same charge or subject matter.

Per the constitution, any "charge or subject matter" against a judges and justices that has been tried before the state's Court of the Judiciary cannot be a grounds for an impeachment.

The punishment upon conviction in an impeachment trial is "removal from office, and disqualifications from holding office, under the authority of this state, for the term for which the officer was elected or appointed".

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