Federal Judiciary

It's Time for Congress to Fix Judicial Pay

By Marshall Manson

This morning in the Washington Post, George Will turns his attention to the question of compensation for federal judges.

Will points to this report by the Chief Justice, which was issued by tradition on New Years Day, but "lost in the cacophony of political news."

In his report, Chief Justice Roberts eloquently argues that federal judges are woefully underpaid. Pointing out that federal judges have been denied "the
same cost-of-living pay adjustments that other federal employees have received since 1989," Roberts voices his support for a bill in Congress to address that sorry state of affairs. Then he delivers his coup-de-grace:

This salary restoration legislation is vital now that the denial of annual increases over the years has left federal trial judges?the backbone of our system of justice?earning about the same as (and in some cases less than) first-year lawyers at firms in major cities, where many of the judges are located.

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Full post as published by ConfirmThem on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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