Posted On: January 9, 2007
Judicial pay needs to be raised to preserve our fair and independent judiciary
In his recent report on the state of the federal judiciary Chief Justice Roberts reports that the low level of pay for our nation's judges has reached a "constitutional crisis." Much like congress, unless the pay disparity between judges and lawyers in the private sector is addressed only wealthy people will be able to afford to be judges. We need an independent judiciary not an independently wealthy judiciary.
Judicial Salaries at Top of Court Administrator's Agenda
In his annual report on the judiciary issued Jan. 1, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said the continued failure of Congress to raise judicial salaries had reached the level of a "constitutional crisis." The job of selling Congress on the urgency of pay raises will fall in part to James Duff, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. From the Legal Times.
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