Next year is a big year nationally. It is a presidential election year. However, it is a down or off year for Alabama. Like several other southern states, we have our big election year in non-presidential years. We elected our governor, other constitutional offices and our entire legislature last year.

However, since we have staggered six-year terms for our state judges, we have an inordinate number of seats on our Supreme Court up for election next year. We have nine members of our state Supreme Court. All nine are Republicans.