I mentioned previously that all three positions open on the Alabama Supreme Court were won by the Republican candidates, including the seat won by former Chief Justice Roy Moore’s protege, Tom Parker. What I didn’t know is that this makes the Court a 9-0 Republican court:

All three Republican Supreme Court candidates won Tuesday as the GOP extended its 8-1 majority into a 9-0 Republican court. Republicans also captured the lone Court of Civil Appeals race on the ballot…

Moore issued a statement saying, “Tom Parker stood with me in my battle over the Ten Commandments, and I believe God has rewarded his faithfulness.”

…Republicans now also hold all the seats on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Judge Sharon Yates, the only Democrat or woman on that five-member court, lost Tuesday to Republican Tommy Bryan. With 96 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, Yates had 810,634 votes, 48 percent, to 877,965 votes, 52 percent, for Bryan…

William Stewart, a political scientist with the University of Alabama, said coattails from President Bush’s strong Alabama showing buoyed GOP judicial candidates…

But Stewart said the GOP gains Tuesday shouldn’t dramatically alter court direction. “It’s already consistently favoring business interests.”

A court going from a 8-1 majority to a 9-0 dominance would seem unlikely to change direction due to the loss of the one Democrat. And Democrats in Alabama aren’t your Manhattan or Berkeley Democrats in their stance on social issues; the commercials I saw had Democrat candidates heavily emphasizing “family” and “conservative” values, so I don’t know that having Democrats on the court would result in very different decisions. However, having two high courts in Alabama fully comprised of Republican justices is a psychological difference.