WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told senators Wednesday that Congress has neglected judicial pay, harming morale among judges and threatening to undermine judicial independence.
The current salary level for judges ``is insufficient to attract the finest members'' of the legal profession to accept appointments to the bench, Kennedy said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kennedy picked up on an issue that Chief Justice John Roberts recently called a ``constitutional crisis.''
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.
Those figures are far less than what lawyers at private firms earn. District judges are paid about half that of deans and senior law professors at top schools.
Ohhh my god! They are making more than the Governor of MA...and the vice-president of the USA!!!!
Posted by: USMCMP5811
Ohhh the Humanity!
Posted by: Spart12
There is something to be said for public service. Clearly these judges feel they are far above other public employees. Teachers and cops should be making $203,000 a year instead of the pittence they get. No one should become a surpreme court judge for the money, they should be doing for the sake of public service.
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