What is State supreme court?
[[File:Eo-scale2.png|thumb|right|200px]] In the [[United States]], a '''state supreme court''' (known by other names in some states) is the highest judicial [[tribunal]] in the [[State court (United States)|court system]] of a particular [[U.S. state|state]].<ref name=sscUSL>{{cite web |url=http://system.uslegal.com/state-supreme-courts/ |title=State Supreme Courts |publisher=USLegal, Inc |access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> Generally, the state supreme court, like most [[appellate court]]s, is exclusively for hearing [[appeal]]s from lower courts.<ref name=sscUSL/> It does not make any finding of [[fact]]s, and thus holds no [[trial]]s. In the case where the trial court made an [[wikt:egregious|egregious]] error in its finding of facts, the state supreme court will send the case back to the trial court for a new trial.<ref name=sscUSL/> This responsibility of correcting the errors of inferior courts is the origin of a number of the different names for supreme courts in various state court systems. The court consists of a [[panel]] of [[judge]]s selected by methods outlined in the [[State constitution (United States)|state constitution]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure/comparing-federal-state-courts |title=Comparing Federal & State Courts |publisher=United States Courts/uscourts.gov |access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref> Many states [[Election|elect]] their state Supreme Court justices and/or use elections to retain judges.<ref name=Kritzer1>Herbert Kritzer, ''Justices on the Ballot: Continuity and Change in State Supreme Court Elections'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 1–2</ref> Since 2000, the amount of money raised by judicial candidates has risen enormously.<ref name=Kritzer1/> Special interest groups have [[wikt:contribute|contribute]]d to many of these [[campaign]]s raising questions of [[impartiality]].<ref name=Kritzer1/> The [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]], in ''[[Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.]]