(a) The judicial power of the Territory is vested in a court of general jurisdiction created by section 21 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, approved July 22, 1954, as amended, designated the “District Court of the Virgin Islands”, and in courts of local jurisdiction to be designated the “Superior Court of the Virgin Islands” and the court of last resort established pursuant to section 21(b) of the Revised Organic Act, “The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands.” Each court is a court of record.
(b) Nothing contained in this title may be construed to grant authority to the Governor of the Virgin Islands to remove the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands, or any justice of the Supreme Court during the justice’s term of office, or the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, or any judge of the Superior Court or magistrate judge of the Superior Court during the judge’s or magistrate judge’s term of office.