Sentence examples for increase in judicial pay from inspiring English sources

It did not explicitly press for an increase in judicial pay, a topic that has been a major theme in earlier reports.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, has been vocal in urging an increase in judicial pay.

The increase is warranted to make up for the erosion in judicial pay caused by inflation and Congress's repeated withholding of cost-of-living adjustments that are supposed to be routine.

Today, it ranks 49th of the 50 states in judicial pay when adjusted for the cost of living.

"Why would a talented lawyer," Judge Lippman asked, "want to join an institution that hasn't had even a cost of living increase in 12 years?" The State Legislature's failure to increase judicial pay since 1999 was the subject of bitter political disputes and court battles before legislation passed in November creating a commission on judicial salaries.

Court officials said the 12 years since the current judicial pay levels were approved was the longest wait for an increase in judicial compensation in more than 50 years.

Since 1992, compensation for most federal workers has increased 91 percent (with total inflation in that period 36 percent) while judicial pay increased only 39 percent.

But the judicial pay increase has repeatedly stalled over state legislators' greedy insistence on linking it to a pay increase for themselves, which in turn is caught up in Albany's byzantine political maneuvering.

A 2-to-1 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned the ruling on the ground that the closest Supreme Court precedent, a 1980 ruling on judicial pay in the case of United States v. Will, treated judicial pay increases as not "vesting" for constitutional purposes until judges had started receiving the money.

He was accused of making a phone call in 1987 to a Superior Court judge who was hearing a contract dispute, and reminding him that one of the litigants was a powerful senator who could influence judicial pay increases.

Indeed, in a series of interviews, judges acknowledged that it could be difficult to make the case for a judicial pay raise in hard economic times.