Alabama legislators face consequential decisions on state budgets this year, including how to provide adequate funding to the state court system.
Alabama’s Unified Judicial System requested $217 million from the state General Fund for the 2027 fiscal year, which starts October 1.
That’s 17% more than this year’s appropriation of $185 million. The increase is needed, in part, to fund 13 new judgeships mandated by the Legislature three years ago…