Constitutional Law

Pay For Federal Judges Remains Stagnant, With No Action In Congress

It doesn’t appear that a bump in pay for federal judges is coming anytime soon. The Legal Times’ Tony Mauro reported that the just-ended congressional lame duck session saw no action on the bills for judicial pay raises. Both chambers’ judiciary committees have approved pay increases, but according to the Legal Times, the recent financial crisis has helped avert any action to pass them. H. Thomas Wells Jr., president of the American Bar Association lamented the situation, telling the Legal Times that, “While many Americans are struggling financially today, few of us have jobs where we are routinely skipped over for even a routine cost of living increase and get no clear guidance on what we will earn in the year ahead.” The legal periodical noted that judges have received no cost-of-living increase for seven of the last 14 years.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).