"WASHINGTON - Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress...
...Federal district court judges are paid $165,200 annually; appeals court judges make $175,100; associate justices of the Supreme Court earn $203,000; the chief justice gets $212,100.
Thirty-eight judges have left the federal bench in the past six years and 17 in the past two years.
The issue of pay, says Roberts, "has now reached the level of a constitutional crisis..."
I can think of many things to say about this "problem"-- none of them kind. The McCain Doctrine will be calling for sacrifice-- hasn't Roberts heard? I'm sure all those people knocking around at two jobs making $25k per year with no medical insurance are overwhelmed with sympathy for the whole squadron of poor, underpaid, millionaire judges. Boo-hoo. I'm sorry guy but I can find a constitution crisis of more importance without looking very far afield-- elections, habeas corpus, etc.
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