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 'cons utional crisis' in year-end report
Robert's is lucky he doesn't get paid per quo like most attorneys...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.
Dwindling Docket Mystifies Supreme Court
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6NY Times— 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.
Did he just admit he could be bought?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.
We do not live in a black and white world.
Just because one would say that c could be a consequence of a and b, doesn't mean that the person would himself be subject to that equation.
Mind you, he's not speaking of just SC judges, but other federal judges on lower levels.
Well, district judges make about $160,000. A raise tied to the inflation Roberts claims would put their salaries at or above the level of associate justices of the Supreme Court. If those are raised much a raise for Roberts can't be too far behind can it?
I really doubt Roberts' argument is based upon greed on his part.
If Roberts wants more money for judges, make all the federal judgeships elective offices so corps can buy the judges they want, just like state/county/etc local judges.
Of course not. Im sure his integrity is firmly tied to his walle...I mean his values.
Dude has a family to feed.
If Roberts wanted to make money, he would have avoided the Supreme Court. His argument makes sense. Impartial judges are something that are far more valuable than a ton of the crap that we blow money on.
John "Spree" Roberts (no apostrophe)
You assume Roberts has not "made money."
BTW, ex-law students are responsible for 99% of every "crappy" dollar ever spent
Yeah, I don't believe Robert's has been boughtin any way shapre or form. I'm not sure what you mean by your second statement, so perhaps for once you could avoid being so cryptic?
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