Nbadan
01-02-2007, 02:22 AM
Apparently, the Robert's court has the same work ethic as last year's Congress and Senate..
Roberts calls lack of pay hike for judges 'constitutional crisis' in year-end report
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - In his second annual report, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. lashed out at Congress for failing to raise the pay of federal judges calling the situation, "grievously unfair."
Roberts, who earned more than $1 million during his last year in private practice in 2003, but gets $212,100 as chief justice, said pay inequity between federal judges and their non-government colleagues has become a crises that could endanger the independence of the federal judiciary. Since 1969, judges' pay has declined by 23.9 percent, when adjusted for inflation, said Roberts. Meanwhile the national average for wages rose by 17.8 percent.
Robert's is lucky he doesn't get paid per quo like most attorneys...
Dwindling Docket Mystifies Supreme Court
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — On the Supreme Court’s color-coded master calendar, which was distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments.
The courtroom, however, was empty on Wednesday, and for a simple reason: The court was out of cases. The question is, where have all the cases gone?
Last year, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said he thought the court had room on its docket and that it “could contribute more to the clarity and uniformity of the law by taking more cases.”
But that has not happened. The court has taken about 40 percent fewer cases so far this term than last. It now faces noticeable gaps in its calendar for late winter and early spring. The December shortfall is the result of a pipeline empty of cases granted last term and carried over to this one.
The number of cases the court decided with signed opinions last term, 69, was the lowest since 1953 and fewer than half the number the court was deciding as recently as the mid-1980s. And aside from the school integration and global warming cases the court heard last week, along with the terrorism-related cases it has decided in the last few years, relatively few of the cases it is deciding speak to the core of the country’s concerns.
NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/washington/07scotus.html?ei=5088&en=21659842c86af8a6&ex=1323147600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1167706954-sbylJLKD+qcMU4X+jEqsAA)
Roberts calls lack of pay hike for judges 'constitutional crisis' in year-end report
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - In his second annual report, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. lashed out at Congress for failing to raise the pay of federal judges calling the situation, "grievously unfair."
Roberts, who earned more than $1 million during his last year in private practice in 2003, but gets $212,100 as chief justice, said pay inequity between federal judges and their non-government colleagues has become a crises that could endanger the independence of the federal judiciary. Since 1969, judges' pay has declined by 23.9 percent, when adjusted for inflation, said Roberts. Meanwhile the national average for wages rose by 17.8 percent.
Robert's is lucky he doesn't get paid per quo like most attorneys...
Dwindling Docket Mystifies Supreme Court
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — On the Supreme Court’s color-coded master calendar, which was distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments.
The courtroom, however, was empty on Wednesday, and for a simple reason: The court was out of cases. The question is, where have all the cases gone?
Last year, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said he thought the court had room on its docket and that it “could contribute more to the clarity and uniformity of the law by taking more cases.”
But that has not happened. The court has taken about 40 percent fewer cases so far this term than last. It now faces noticeable gaps in its calendar for late winter and early spring. The December shortfall is the result of a pipeline empty of cases granted last term and carried over to this one.
The number of cases the court decided with signed opinions last term, 69, was the lowest since 1953 and fewer than half the number the court was deciding as recently as the mid-1980s. And aside from the school integration and global warming cases the court heard last week, along with the terrorism-related cases it has decided in the last few years, relatively few of the cases it is deciding speak to the core of the country’s concerns.
NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/washington/07scotus.html?ei=5088&en=21659842c86af8a6&ex=1323147600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1167706954-sbylJLKD+qcMU4X+jEqsAA)